All posts by Ivor Stuart
Exploding carp numbers are ‘like a house of horrors’ for our rivers. Is it time to unleash carp herpes?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. With widespread La Niña flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin, common carp (Cyprinus carpio) populations are having a boom year. Videos of writhing masses of both adult and young fish illustrate that all is not well in our rivers….