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 ...

Scientists are calling on the Australian authorities to review their decision to introduce the carp herpes virus as a way to combat the common carp having colonized the country's rivers. They not only ...

The Australian government is considering using a type of herpes virus as a biological agent to reduce the population of carp in the country’s waterways. “Their main impact has been a decline in ...

A Maryland angler has broken a 44-year-old record after catching a giant carp while fishing on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. Essex-resident Logan Kurhmann, 24, snagged a common carp (Cyprinus carpio) ...

The scene is unforgettable and unforgivable: an elected official, the deputy prime minister of Australia, cutting loose about a fish species introduced into the country by his ancestors, and demanding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In many parts of Europe, the common carp is a prized table fish. But the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is arguably Australia’s ...