silver carp

Water skiing in areas where silver carp are present is extremely dangerous.

The bottom half shows on a blue background a silver carp from the side swimming to the left.

A total of 3,239 fish were caught, all of them silver carp.

Silver carp can grow to 45 kg (100 lb) in mass.

Bighead and silver carp are the most important fish, worldwide, in terms of total aquaculture production.

Among the various kinds of carp, the silver carp is least expensive in China.

Bighead and silver carp feed by filtering plankton from the water.

Thus, in some cases, blue-green algae blooms have been exacerbated by silver carp.

No silver carp or black carp have yet been found in any Great Lake.

In another example, a leaping silver carp broke the jaw of a teenager being pulled on an inner tube.

Large-scale silver carp, a more southern species, is native to, and is cultivated in Vietnam.

Silver carp feed on the plankton necessary for larval fish and native mussels.

Why dynamite the pond in order to catch that single silver carp?")

Silver carp are traced on glass jars.

Pound for pound, more silver carp are produced worldwide in aquaculture than any other species.

Also, Microcystis has been shown to produce more toxins in the presence of silver carp.

Some species such as silver carp and grass carp were acclimatized in the last decade.

At present, there are no known self-sustaining bighead or silver carp populations in the Great Lakes.

Silver carp have become notorious for being easily frightened by boats and personal watercraft, which causes them to leap high into the air.

The silver carp is also called the flying carp for its tendency to leap from the water when startled.

The main species with which the lake is stocked are the silver carp and the bighead carp.

One silver carp, caught in 2006, reached 130 centimeters in length and weighed over 20 kilograms.

They're ducking, they're yelling, the silver carp are flying, the boat is swerving.

"I know you can't not laugh when you see the silver carp jumping all over the place, but it's really not funny," he said.

All the above, except largescale silver carp, have been cultivated in aquaculture in China for over 1,000 years.