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Herpes virus “Needed for Carp now”

24/03/2023 by The Coonamble Times

As communities across the west continue to be astonished by their numbers and anxiety grows around the damage being done by carp, a leading fish ecologist has questioned why the Federal Government has not acted to stop the invasive species. 

“I’ve been working for fish ecology over 30 years and I have never seen anything like it,” said Adam Kerezsy, a freshwater ecologist and author from Lake Cargelligo.

“There are literally billions of carp,” he told the Western Plains App “ There simply isn’t enough room for our native fish to thrive…

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