In Western food culture, deep-sea fish has always been the first choice on the table. Because many foreigners believe that the growing environment of freshwater fish such as carp is not clean enough, there is almost no consumer market for this type of fish in North America, causing serious ecological problems.
According to US media reports, US President Trump recently announced that he will officially launch a battle against the invasive species Asian carp. Currently, this extremely fast-producing fish has accumulated in large numbers in the Great Lakes and surrounding waters, posing a devastating threat to the local aquatic ecology.
Trump made it clear that he was communicating with the governor of Michigan and was preparing to take strong measures to save the Great Lakes. He also appealed to the governors of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and other states around the lake, hoping that all states can act in a unified manner to jointly curb species invasion.
What is striking is that Trump also mentioned Mark Carney in his speech and called him the future governor of Canada. He hopes that Canada can also contribute to this governance action, because some of the key waters affected by Asian carp are located in Canada.
This statement is also related to a bold idea that Trump has mentioned many times before. He once proposed making Canada the 51st state of the United States, claiming that this would eliminate bilateral trade tariffs, significantly reduce taxes, and even provide Canada with complete security guarantees from a superpower.
In fact, Asian carp does not refer to a single fish, but a collective name for several freshwater fish of the carp family, such as silver carp, silver carp and black carp. These fish were first introduced to North America in the 1970s, with the original intention of cleaning up water bodies. However, due to the lack of natural predators, they quickly overflowed.
These alien species not only eat an astonishing amount of food, but also have extremely strong reproductive capabilities, seriously crowding out the living space and food resources of local native fish. How to deal with these Asian carps, which are too dirty in the eyes of foreigners and too abundant in the eyes of ecologists, has become a long-term environmental challenge facing the United States and Canada.
