white amur

The lake is abundant in fish, including white amur, carp, catfish, pike, perch and other freshwater whitefish.

The variety of wildlife includes catfish and carp also: pike, chub, crvenorepke, white amur, sunstroke, and babushkas.

This is not to be confused with the white amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis), which is not a particularly close relative as Cyprinidae.

State officials said the fish - the white amur, or grass carp - was illegally brought into Connecticut and could cause environmental damage if it spreads to other waterways.

A white Amur tiger may have been born at Center Hill and has given rise to a strain of white Amur tigers.

The Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa Bay has four of these white Amur tigers, descended from Robert Baudy's stock.

In the United States, the fish is also known as white amur, a name developed to avoid use of the name "carp", which has derogatory connotations in North America.

Ponchatoula Creek forms a habitat for the species Ctenopharyngodon idella, a grass carp fish also known as white amur, which was introduced in 1963 from Vietnam to enhance weed control.

Long term efforts of the Rainbow Lake Coalition (a subcommitte of the SLCWEP) are now focused on the introduction of sterile white Amur carp, which have been proven to control milfoil for up to 10 years.