LOL! Just like carp, they're bony. At the price these things are going for, I don't think you would want to eat one. That would be quite an expensive dinner.
Here's a story of my Koi Dealer who actually ate one: He went to Japan to buy Nishikigoi and he bought a couple of large black ones for $8,000 a piece (yeah, you read that right!.
After he brought them home and put them in his pond, one of them jumped out and died. You can guess the rest!
BD: That was quite a bit of work with the help of my Koi Dealer. But it took my son and I 6 months to dig the pond as there was no way to get a mechanical digger in the back yard. All sandstone, and we had to build up one part of the yard because it was on a hillside. 4 1/2 ft deep on one end and 6 ft at the deep end. Had to have it this deep to keep Racoons (in which I had one as a pet) from going in and eating the koi.
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... and if you want to know how big these things can get. Here are a couple of pix. The black one is 4 feet long.
The red, white and black (Sanke) is actually a very young fish ... maybe 2 years old, but almost 3 ft long already.
Sanke being removed from a growing pond in Niigata Japan.
Magoi
It would take you a while to eat these!
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