Editing Common carp (section)

==As food and sport==
{{See also|Carp fishing}}
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[[File:Преспански крап.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lake Prespa]] carp, as served]]
[[Image:Carp fly fishing.jpg|thumb|European carp caught with an [[artificial fly]]]]

===Breeding and Fishing===

The Romans farmed carp and this pond culture continued through the monasteries of Europe and to this day. In China, Korea, and Japan, carp farming took place as early as the [[Yayoi period]] (c. 300 BC – AD 300).<ref>Daily Yomiuri newspaper, September 19, 2008</ref>

The annual tonnage of common carp produced in [[China]] alone, not to mention the other cyprinids, exceeds the weight of all other fish, such as trout and salmon, produced by aquaculture worldwide. Roughly three million tonnes are produced annually, accounting for 14% of all farmed freshwater fish in 2002. China is by far the largest commercial producer, accounting for about 70% of carp production.<ref name=fao/> Carp is eaten in many parts of the world both when caught from the wild and raised in [[aquaculture]].

Common carp are extremely popular with [[Fisherman|angler]]s in many parts of Europe, and their popularity as quarry is slowly increasing among anglers in the United States (though they are still generally considered pests and destroyed in most areas of the U.S.), and southern Canada. Carp are also popular with spear, bow, and fly fishermen.<ref>David Batten: An Introduction to Carp
Fishing, p. 24</ref>

===Food culture===
In [[Central Europe]], it is a traditional part of a [[Christmas Eve]] dinner. Hungarian [[fisherman's soup]], a specially prepared fish soup of carp alone or mixed with other freshwater fish, is part of the traditional meal for Christmas Eve in Hungary along with stuffed cabbage and poppy seed roll and walnut roll. A traditional Czech Christmas Eve dinner is a thick [[Fish soup|soup]] of carp's head and offal, [[Fried fish|fried carp meat]] (sometimes the meat is skinned and baked instead) with [[potato salad]] or boiled carp in black sauce.<ref> HRDINOVÁ, Radka. The tradition of carp with salad is not even a hundred years old. What was eaten for Christmas before?. iHNed.cz . 23/12/2011.</ref> A Slovak Christmas Eve dinner is quite similar, with soup varying according to the region and fried carp as the main dish. Also in [[Austria]], parts of [[Germany]], and [[Poland]], a fried carp is one of the traditional dishes on Christmas Eve.
<ref> Lis Raabe: Alte Weihnachtsbräuche aus deutschsprachigen Ländern. Heyne, München 1984</ref>
Carp are mixed with other common fish to make [[gefilte fish]], popular in [[Jewish cuisine]].<ref>Falsche Fish. In: Gil Marks: Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ 2010, p. 185.</ref> 

In [[Western Europe]], the carp is cultivated more commonly as a sport fish, although there is a small market for it as a food fish.<ref>[http://www.carp-uk.net/carpfacts.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723035631/http://www.carp-uk.net/carpfacts.htm|date=July 23, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.fatanglingtours.com/carpinfo.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102081418/http://www.fatanglingtours.com/carpinfo.htm|date=January 2, 2015}}</ref> 

In the [[United States]], carp is mostly ignored as a food fish. Almost all U.S. shoppers bypass carp, due to a preference for filleted fish as opposed to cooking whole. Carp have smaller intramuscular bones called y-bones, which makes them a whole fish species for cooking.

When Eurasian Carp was introduced to [[Lake Toba]] in [[Sumatra]], it was adapted to be used for the traditional dish [[Arsik]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-17 |title=Arsik Recipe (Spiced Carp with Torch Ginger and Andaliman - Mandailing Style) » Indonesia Eats |work=Indonesia Eats |url=https://indonesiaeats.com/arsik-indonesian-andaliman-spiced-carp-batak/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |archive-date=2020-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017132159/https://indonesiaeats.com/arsik-indonesian-andaliman-spiced-carp-batak/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>