In states where legal, black carp can still be possessed.

At the same time, they play with the fat red, silver, and black carp swimming around nearby.

But some farmers say nothing works like black carp, and they intend to fight the ruling.

At least some of the koi - the orange, white and black carp species - will return.

No state allows the intentional release of black carp, sterile or otherwise.

Black carp are not as widely distributed worldwide as the other three.

His glasses were so thick they made his eyes look like black carp swimming in bowls.

The black carp feeds on native mussels and snails, some of which can be already endangered.

The parasite is believed to have been introduced from shipments of black carp to fish farms in Mexico.

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

To help them adjust to other means of snail control, he said, the department is providing sterile black carp to use in their ponds temporarily.

Turtles and koi, orange, white and black carp, inhabit the waters.

Now a more recent arrival, the black carp, is stirring alarm from New Orleans to Ontario.

Viviparus quadratus is common animal food used in aquaculture to feed fish black carp in China.

It is thus illegal in most cases to transport live black carp, whether sterile or fertile, into the United States or across state lines.

Black carp are considered to be a serious threat to mollusks native to the United States, many of which are critically endangered.

Among the dishes at Oriental Town Seafood is steamed black carp with black beans.

"I've talked to both of our senators personally," said Mike Freeze, a black carp and bass farmer in Arkansas.

However, since 2003, several adult, fertile black carp have been captured from the Atchafalaya and other rivers connected to the Mississippi River.

Mike Freeze, who raises hybrid striped bass for restaurants, also produces the sterile black carp, which he sells to Mississippi farmers.

Of the Asian carp introduced to the United States, only two (crucian and black carp) are not known to be firmly established.

The nature of the black carp's diet has led to its use in the United States in the control of snails in aquaculture.

Black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus)

After two years of pressure, the Fish and Wildlife Service on July 30 proposed adopting a rule designating one, the black carp, an injurious species.