Scientists are criticizing the Australian government for its $11 million plan to unleash herpes on its carp population. The plan could lead to “catastrophic ecosystem crashes” and “constitutes a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia is using the herpes virus in an effort to control wild carp populations. This is the first eradication ever undertaken using herpes. Carp are an invasive species in Australia, where they ...

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 ...

When carp were first introduced into Australia in the mid-19th century, acclimatizing settlers hoped the freshwater fish would bring a taste of home to their food and recreational activity down under.

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

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 ...

Scientists are lab-testing a death fish that will wipe out its own species. Pests across the planet beware. The dirt road that snakes up into the Tasmanian highlands is rutted from generations of ...

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 ...