Importation, Interstate Shipment of Black Carp Would Be Banned Under Rule Proposed by Wildlife Agency

The black carp, used by American aquaculture farmers to control snails but feared by scientists who see potential widespread damage should the fish escape into the wild, would be banned from further importation into the United States as well as in interstate transport under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal to name the black carp as an injurious species.

The proposed rule, published in today