>>1511248>14" minimum for walleyeCount yourself lucky. Up here in Vermont it's 18", with a daily limit of three fish.
>>1511304Yuros were eating carp centuries ago, though. They were introduced to England in the 15th or 16th century specifically as a game fish. The real reasons are more sociopolitical: salmon, sturgeon, and to a lesser extent trout, were historically reserved for the royalty, nobility, and landed gentry that owned all the fishing rights to the rivers. The lower classes were mostly left with pike, perch, pike-perch, the carp family (carp, tench, bream, etc.), catfishes, and eels.
Secondly, Europeans are still used to eating more strongly-flavored ocean fish which we Americans have mostly lost our taste for (herring and sardines, for instance). We used to eat lots of oily fishes here, too, but now, aside from salmon and tuna, white, flaky, mild-tasting flesh is the what the public demands (many people find even swordfish and dolphin/mahi-mahi too strong for their liking).
Thirdly, in America, the position carp occupies with anglers in Europe is essentially occupied by the sunfishes: black bass, crappie, and bluegill (which are even commonly called "bream" in parts of the U.S.A.).
