> The fish referred to are more correctly known as Grass Carp
> (Ctenopharyngodon idella) and can mostly be blamed on State Wildlife
> Agencies, or at least they can in Kansas.
>
> Touted as a miracle cure for aquatic macrophyte control, they have been
> introduced far and wide.
>
> Most people just traded their rooted plant "problem" for pea-green ponds,
> dissolved oxygen depletions, and the not-so-occasional attendant
fishkills.
>
> I believe I have read that they are capable of reproducing in our larger
> rivers and that young of year fish have been taken from the Missouri and
> Mississippi rivers (at least).
>
> I can vouch for the fact that they will leap seines easily (and at high
> speed).
>
> Steve Haslouer
> Environmental Scientist III
> Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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