Americans finally realize that they are "good"?

A few days ago, Illinois, the United States, named the four types of fish previously collectively referred to as "Asian carp" as "COPI", with a view to reinstalling the brand and increased the attractiveness of carp to local consumers.

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According to the US Broadcasting Corporation reported on the 23rd, in the 1960s and 1970s, in order to remove the algae in fish farming and lakes, the Asian carp was introduced in Duozhou in the United States, and then these vitality fish fled to the Mississippi River and its tributaries to invade the tributaries and occupied their tributaries to invade their tributaries and invaded the occupation The living space of local fish. Relevant management agencies have spent more than $ 600 million to prevent these "foreign customers" from invading five large lakes and other waters. Recently, officials came up with the way to destroy them with "eating", but before using this method, they wanted to change a more attractive name for the carp.

Kevin Ainens, assistant fishery director of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Illinois, said: "The name 'carp" is too harsh, and people will not even try it. But it is healthy, clean, and tastes good. "It is reported that carp English CARP has the meaning of "finding faults", and its new name "COPI" is an abbreviation of English words "Copious", which means that the rich catfish, silver fish, grass carp and black carp in the central United States.

Ren Xiaonan

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