Sentence examples for carp which was from inspiring English sources

For at least a decade, people in the Midwest have worried about the arrival of Asian carp, which was first imported to the United States in the 1970s to help fish farmers in the South clean up their algae-filled ponds.

Silver carp which was only found in the midstream and downstream sites had a trophic level about 2, indicating that they relied on primary producers.

The most common species of fish encountered today is the common carp, which was introduced into the Jordan River and Utah Lake as a source of food after overfishing caused the depletion of native species stocks.

CARP (which was validated in our Q-PCR data) is expressed mainly in the heart, lungs and muscle [ 68], and is induced upon injury and hypertrophy, suggesting it participates in muscle stress response pathways [ 69].

Biserovsky also produces carp, which is heartier and able to endure warm water, so that harvest is not at risk — at least not yet.

Of particular concern to wildlife officials is the spread of Asian carp, which are moving up the Mississippi River system, multiplying in huge numbers and hogging all of the plankton that other fish require.

A drainage pipe from the refuge's vast duck pond attracted a roiling shoal of hundreds of carp, which were turning out to be the trip's theme fish.

It also seeks to halt the spread of invasive species like quagga and zebra mussels and a newcomer, the Asian carp, which is looming just a canal's length away.

Yates, who lives in a village in Wiltshire, England, brilliantly describes the enchantment experienced by an angler almost besotten with his sport, pays homage to a smart, tough and hard-fighting species, and unobtrusively suggests ways to locate and catch carp, which are highly regarded as a sport fish in Europe.

Unwelcome species don't get much more unwelcome than Asian bighead and silver carp, which were imported to Southern fish farms in the 1970's, escaped into the Mississippi system and have spent a decade or more moving slowly upriver toward the Great Lakes.

Nude carps, a genotype of common carp which are devoid of scales, have been banned from farmed populations of carp in Europe due to both the lethal effect of the N (nude) gene when in homozygous state, and to the negative pleiotropic effects on growth and survival (especially in harsh conditions) of this same gene in the heterozygous state, which produces the nude phenotype.