One of the easiest ways to boost fish growth in ponds is by providing them fish feed, said Scott Jones, small impoundment ...

They both feed on plankton – just like walleye, perch and other native species - and would likely be far more disruptive to the food web than the plant-eating grass carp, Mapes said. That’s ...

"Plus, the grass grows back ... isn't the favorite food of the carp, but they will eat it." Mayor Hap Harrington said the city wants to make the pond more useful for residents.

Finally, grass carp eat aquatic vegetation and was introduced to specifically eat weeds in catfish ponds. However, the species eats various types of vegetation that provides cover for fish like ...

Other lakes that have introduced sterile grass carp so far end up stocking too many and having them eat all aquatic vegetation or too few where they are unable to remove the invasive vegetation.

About 40 years ago, the same weed ravaged the waters and ultimately led to the creation of the district, as well as the introduction of 32,000 sterile, grass-eating carp which eventually died off ...

Frank Reynolds, of Linn, was on the hunt for the monster grass carp in a private pond at an unspecified location near Jefferson City in early August, according to a Sept. 4 news release by the ...