HISTORY

Introduction to the United States Bighead carp were first imported into the United States in 1973 by a private fish farmer in Arkansas as a potential biological control agent to improve water quality and increase fish production in culture ponds.

FUTURE

The negative effects of invasive carp to the Nation’s waterways are far reaching and have potential to expand and intensify. USGS is delivering data, tools and technologies to partners to keep these invasive fish out of the Great Lakes and other aquatic ecosystems and control them where they occur in the Ohio River and Mississippi River Basins.

SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS

“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”