Examples of Grass carp in a sentence
Grass carp can consume up to 40% of their body weight per day in aquatic vegetation (Laird and Page 1996).
Grass carp are also known to consume terrestrial vegetation (Kilgen and Smitherman1971; Terrell and Fox 1974) by digging into banks and uprooting riparian vegetation (personal communication, Duane Chapman, USGS).
Grass carp are also used widely for vegetation control by private aquaculture facilities; approximately 42% of catfish production facilities use grass carp for vegetation control (APHIS 2003).
Grass carp grow rapidly before the onset of maturity, reaching 1 kg by age one and growing 2-3 kg per year in temperate climates and 4.5 kg/year in tropical climates (Shireman and Smith 1983).
Grass carp are highly migratory, transported across watersheds, and widely stocked; factors that make this fish a concern for the further dispersal of the Asian tapeworm in waters of the United States.
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Grass carp prefer large, slow flowing water bodies with available vegetation.
The species can withstand dissolved oxygen concentrations as low as 0.5 ppm and salinities to 10 ppt (Froese and Pauly 2001) Grass carp possess comb-like pharyngeal teeth that are used to grind vegetation.
Grass carp can tolerate water temperatures between 0-38°C, but prefer temperatures of 10-26°C.
Grass carp eggs are non-adhesive and semi-buoyant, requiring flowing water for incubation (Cudmore and Mandrak 2004).