Watershed Landcare | Catchment Corner

By Watershed Landcare
November 24 2017 - 5:00am
Control: We want to work collaboratively with the local community - as healthy river systems and waterways result in healthier communities.
Control: We want to work collaboratively with the local community - as healthy river systems and waterways result in healthier communities.

The feeding habits of the European carp, Cyprinus Carpio, have a detrimental effect on water quality and create an unfavourable environment for other species. Carp are benthivorous fish that feed in and on sediment; this is destructive to aquatic plants, which provide critical feeding, spawning and nursery habitat for native fish, increases turbidity by suspending sediments, and mobilises sediment bound phosphorus.

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