Like all great supervillains, the Asian carp have their origin story. The fish were imported from Asia—where they’ve been raised in aquaculture for thousands of years—to the Midwest in the 1970s, where they were used in fish farms. When the waters around the Mississippi flooded in the spring, however, so would those farms—and at least [...]
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