This page shows a woman getting her jaw broken by a flying Asian carp on the Illinois river:

Instant Karma: Woman bow hunting carp gets jaw broken by fish

Looking at that article by itself, you might wonder how it is possible for a fish to break a woman’s jaw. This video will make it clear, especially if you look at the point around 2:30 or 2:45:

As you can see, the number of these fish in the river is gigantic, the flying fish weigh up to 20 pounds each, and they have this desire to jump whenever a boat comes by.

Part 1 of the video explains where all these carp came from:

The story of the Asian carp invasion starts at the bottom of the Mississippi river near Vicksburg with Jerry Rasmussen. Rasmussen is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist and he’s devoted his career to fighting Asian carp. In the early 1970s, catfish farmers here and in Arkansas imported the carp from Asia to help filter their ponds to keep them clean. Then along came the Mississippi floods of 1993, and the rest is history. The carp escaped from the ponds into the rivers, and from the rivers into the Mississippi.

From there they spawned and started moving upstream. Today there are millions and millions of the fish.

The video talks about the effort to keep the fish out of the Great Lakes, and electric fence designed to repel them. In december the fence needed to be turned off for maintenance, and poison was used to keep them away:

Poison Planned to Repel Asian Carp Invasion

Illinois environmental officials will dump a toxic chemical into a nearly 6-mile stretch of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Wednesday to keep the voracious Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes while an electrical barrier is turned off for maintenance.

It is well known that commercial fisherman can decimate fish populations. Sharks are in decline worldwide. Bluefin tuna could be gone in a decade according to some reports. Even a species like Menhaden could be driven to extinction. So why can’t commercial fishermen focus on these millions of fish, which we actually want to eliminate?

If you would like to tap into this cheap source of protein (or get your jaw broken), here’s how to do it: