From Carp to Copi

Fishy Fridays

Weekly spotlight on fisheries science journal articles

 

Jeff Kopaska
AFS Executive Director
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This week my AFS travels took me to lovely Rock Island, Illinois, and the Illinois Chapter meeting. These folks have a great raffle, and put on a good meeting; I greatly enjoyed their hospitality!

Following recent trends, today I will highlight work from Illinois in my Fishy Friday selection. Today’s paper highlights their efforts to grow a commercial market for their burgeoning population of “famous fishes”, as the article states. Copi is the brand name for aggregate of grass, Black, Bighead and Silver Carp. The article provides an excellent background on the history of carp in North America, and how we got to where we are today. Please give it a read!

https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.11088