Sentence examples for flying carp from inspiring English sources
noun
A fish of the species Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, native to east Asia, cultivated as a food fish, highly invasive in US, also known as a silver carp.
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Discover: A piece that looks at how and why the waterways of America's heartland have been overrun by flying Asian carp.
In May, the Inma Agribusiness Program, a project financed by United States Agency for International Development, even flew 12,400 carp fingerlings from Hungary in the hope of cross-breeding a hardier, fleshier fish.
They prevent people with the spatial awareness of a stoned carp flying planes, or Ozzy Osbourne attempting cataract surgery on your nan's mate Irene.
They're ducking, they're yelling, the silver carp are flying, the boat is swerving.
Fishermen don't offer flies to carp.
In the Japanese boys' festival, painted paper carp were flown from poles as symbols of strength and virility.
Paper carp are flown like pennants on Boy's Day in Japan, and throughout the country there is an abundance of kite festivals, each one with special traditions and significance.
And not many people fish for carp anyway, let alone fly-fish for them.
In the Columbia River estuary, most predated by eagles were estimated to measure between 30 and in length, and carp flown with (laboriously) were up to 86 cm in length.
