# Putting the 'devil fish' on the menu **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [August 11, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-the-devil-fish-on-the-menu/988410 "2023-08-11T14:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-the-devil-fish-on-the-menu/988410/15 "2023-08-11T21:14:49Z")
I looked at the thread, and immediately felt deja vu… > [@Eating invasive crabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-invasive-crabs/955500): > > European green crabs, an invasive species, have come to the Pacific Northwest. We’re not allowed to catch European green crabs in Washington, for fear of cases of mistaken identity. (With what? I’ve only seen Dungeness and red rock crabs here.) Meanwhile, Oregon is publishing cooking tips: [Mealtime Management: Using Culinary Creativity to Remove Invasive European Green Crabs](https://www.oregon.gov/dsl/SS/Documents/GreenCrabManagement_CulinaryGuide.pdf) [.pdf] Largely, I feel the same now as then, that making them into a tasty attractive nuisance and devouring them isn’t a great fix, and one that has a small chance to backfire, but still probably won’t hurt and may help. And the default “If we can’t fix it perfectly, it’s best to do nothing until we have a perfect solution” is mind-shatteringly stupid. Granted, the article in the prior thread was predominantly negative towards the eating of invasive species (see the mind-shatteringly stupid above), and this one is largely positive. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-the-devil-fish-on-the-menu/988410)._