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Facts About Invasive Bighead and Silver Carps
Department of the Geological SurveyFact Sheet 2010 3033 May 2010 Facts About Invasive Bighead and Silver CarpsBackground and Problem Bighead and Silver carp, together the bigheaded Carps , are native to China. In North America, the term asian Carps is used to refer to the bigheaded Carps together with the also- Invasive grass carp and black carp, or sometimes to the bigheaded Carps alone. Bigheaded Carps were imported in the 1970s for aqua-culture and use in sewage treatment. They escaped from captivity, and by the late 1990s had become extremely abundant in parts of the Mississippi River drainage.
Facts About Invasive Bighead and Silver Carps Background and Problem • Bighead and silver carp, together the “bigheaded carps”, are native to China. In North America, the term “Asian ... in response to the threat of Asian carp invasion of the Great Lakes, an Asian Carp Workgroup was formed and a …
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