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  2. Grass carp - Wikipedia

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    The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is a species of large herbivorous freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae, ... National Invasive Species Information Center, ...

  3. Asian carp - Wikipedia

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    Asian carp is an informal grouping of several species of cyprinid freshwater fishes native to Eurasia, commonly referring to the four East Asian species silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp (a.k.a. white amur) and black carp (a.k.a. black amur), [note 1] which were introduced to North America during the 1970s and now regarded as invasive in the United States.

  4. Asian carp in North America - Wikipedia

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    The four dominant fish species known in the United States as Asian carp are introduced invasive species.They all cause harm within their new environments. Specifically, the four most well-known species of invasive Asian carp are black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus), grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), and bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis).

  5. Sea lamprey? Quagga mussels? New study ranks the worst ... - AOL

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    Invasive mussels, grass carp, common reed alter ecosystems. According to the study, zebra and quagga mussels have had the biggest environmental impact, followed by grass carp and the common reed ...

  6. Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into ...

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    Four different species are considered invasive carp: bighead, black, grass and silver. They were imported to the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s to help rid southern aquaculture farms of algae, weeds ...

  7. Hundreds of invasive carp were caught in the Mississippi ...

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    More than 300 invasive carp were pulled from the Mississippi River near Trempealeau last Thursday, the largest single capture of the nuisance fish in Wisconsin waters to date.

  8. List of invasive species in North America - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...

  9. Silver carp, harmful to fish and water, detected in western ...

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    Silver carp, grass carp and bighead carp have been documented in the upper river system for years, and a study earlier this year from the U.S. Geological Survey found that black carp are also ...