Joyce described the carp as “disgusting, bottom-dwelling, mud-sucking creatures.” Although infecting carp with herpes might seem like an overreaction, Carpagedon became official policy on May 1. While ...

Australia plans to introduce herpes virus into Murray River to kill invasive carp that has depleted native fish Sydney: A strain of herpes, Australia’s longest river, and millions of tonnes of dead ...

The Australian government recently announced an unusual initiative to eradicate a long-standing animal pest problem. To rid their streams and rivers of invasive European carp crowding out native ...

It has been a big day in Australia: Carp, carp and some more carp. Yea, no one here really knows what is going on either. Let's break it down. On Sunday, the Australian government announced a A$15 ...

Australia doesn’t have the best history when it comes to invasive species. One such animal is the European carp, which has spread throughout much of Australia’s waterways. Now, in an unlikely alliance ...

Carp, a pest fish in Australia, will be facing an epidemic sometime around 2018, at least if the Australian government follows through with a newly announced plan. The nation's deputy prime minister ...

FILE - In this June 13, 2012, file photo, Asian carp, jolted by an electric current from a research boat, jump from the Illinois River near Havana, Ill. Outgoing Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has ...

Officials in Australia are calling it “Carpageddon”, an ambitious proposal to rid the country’s longest river system—the Murray-Darling—of invasive common ...

A coalition of conservationists, recreational fishers and farmers want Australia’s state and federal governments to get rid of European carp, or “Australia’s worst freshwater pest”, by releasing ...

Not content with telling Jonny Depp’s dogs to “bugger off,” Australia’s new Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has moved onto his next target … carp. Joyce announced during a robust speech to a rowdy ...

Scientists from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have been testing the virus, known as CyHV-3, for seven years to make sure it won’t have any unintended ...

Plans to release a virus to reduce numbers of invasive Common Carp in Australia are unlikely to work and should be dropped, researchers say. Plans to release a virus to reduce numbers of invasive ...