Cleaning carp of scales can be quite an unpleasant task. The traditional method, using a knife, often results in scales scattered all over the kitchen, causing more time to be spent on cleaning ...

In the 1970s government scientists in Arkansas were testing to see if carp imported from Asia could, as an alternative to chemicals, clean up algae from catfish farms and sewage lagoons.

Asian carp, which was imported into the United States in the 1970s to clean algae in commercial ponds, spilled into the freshwater system and flourished. It thrived so well that some of the fish would ...