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Distribution:
Nationwide
Nebraska: in the Missouri River
Origin:
Asia
Characteristics:
Greenish in color with a large head, feed on phytoplankton in rivers and
streams
Impacts:
Have been found to school with paddlefish and compete with them as well
as other baitfish for food
Management:
Not much action is being taken to manage the Bighead carp in Nebraska,
however, research is being conducted to further determine its impacts.
Bighead carp were first imported into the United States in 1972 by a
private fish farmer in Arkansas who wanted to use them in combination with
other phytophagous fishes to improve water quality and increase fish production
in culture ponds.
See also Common
Carp for problems caused by carp.
For More Information on Bighead
carp:
US
Geological Survey
Bowfishing Assn. of
Iowa
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