Beating the carp out of our suffering rivers

EUROPEAN carp (cyprinus carpio) have long been the bane of communities along the length of the Murray River.Numbers have exploded since the mid-1970s, when flooding at Mildura resulted in the release of an enhanced strain of carp that subsequently spread throughout the Murray-Darling Basin.Carp have caused untold damage to Australia’s freshwater environment, siphoning sediment from […]