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Exploding carp numbers are 'like a house of horrors' for our rivers. Is it time to unleash carp herpes?

  • Written by Ivor Stuart, Fisheries ecologist, Charles Sturt University
Exploding carp numbers are 'like a house of horrors' for our rivers. Is it time to unleash carp herpes?Ivor Stuart/The Conversation

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. Carp now account for up to 90% of live fish mass in some rivers.

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