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They are all bones, a bottom feeding scum fish. I never tried to eat any, but used to shot them with a rifle by the tons in the irrigation canals of eastern Washington.

Would dig a hole in the orchard and bury for fertilizer, or chop in pieces and made a stew for the cats.

Very, very bony. IF you were hungry, famine or poverty, you would welcome the sucking of each bone after stewing, roasting or grilling.... white middle class Americans are not.

European streams and rivers that carp are taken from are much more likely to have very rocky bottoms. The carp don't ingest a lot of silt and mud like they do in the US. In fact, carp are not native to the US. They were specifically brought over from Europe because they were admired so well by Europeans. Americans thought it would be a good idea to bring them over here and dump them en masse into rivers so that they could sell them (quite literally, trains would stop on bridges over rivers and dump tons of carp right into the rivers).

Unfortunately, Americans failed to realize that the rivers and streams that the carps were entering were much different than European streams and rivers. The waterways here in the west that the carp gravitate towards are much slower and have very muddy bottoms. So the carp sit in the mud and roll around, ingesting large amounts of nasty sludge, becoming absolutely inedible, and ruining stream quality in the process. Yet another lesson in why people should not introduce exotic species to new environments.