How to Use grass carp in a Sentence

grass carp

noun

• The only one of the four species found in Lake Erie so far is the grass carp.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2022
• On June 7, a 32-pound grass carp was found in Lake Calumet.
  — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
• The black carp's head is also more narrow and more cone-shaped than that of the grass carp.
  — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2018
• There are a few hypotheses as to what might be attracting the grass carp.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
• The garden was next to a dark pond haunted by huge albino grass carp.
  — Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• Schools of small fish were seen in abundance over the weekend as well as several large grass carp.
  — al, 31 Aug. 2022
• Four major species of Asian carp are found in Kentucky: grass carp, black carp, silver carp and big head carp.
  — Ayana Archie, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2021
• Those species include silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp and black carp.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 6 Feb. 2020
• Adult grass carp consume aquatic plants, which serve as food and habitat for native fish.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2021
• Since the mid-2000s, the Lake Norman Marine Commission has treated outbreaks of the weed by adding thousands grass carp to the waters.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 15 Feb. 2018
• There are four species of invasive carp in Missouri rivers -- bighead carp, black carp, grass carp and silver carp.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2021
• But recent surveys have found grass carp eggs in Great Lakes waterways.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
• The boxes contained dozens of juvenile grass carp, a species native to Asia and famous for taking to forests of seaweed like locusts to crops.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Within a decade of the grass carp's arrival, Arkansas fish farmers would import three other carp species: black, bighead and silver.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Removing exotic species such as grass carp, armored catfish and tilapia can be helpful to a fishery.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 June 2018
• Black carp look similar to grass carp — so much so that there is no reliable method to tell them apart based on physical characteristics.
  — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2018
• Although grass carp are not desirable for fishing, using sterile carp would ensure the population would die out once its work was done.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• There are actually four different types of carp native to Eurasia: bighead, silver, black and grass carp.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2021
• Flooding of outdoor ponds is one theory as to how grass carp escaped captivity.
  — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
• And while common carp have a generally poor reputation among anglers, grass carp are a whole other critter.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 9 Oct. 2019
• The Asian carp, which included 40 silver carp and 11 grass carp, were collected by commercial fishermen using seines to target buffalo and common carp.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2020
• In 2003, as part of an aquatic nuisance management plan, TPWD began stocking grass carp to combat the rampant hydrilla that was choking water intake structures and contributing to flooding.
  — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024