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Carp Task Force. 1989. Report to the Louisiana Legislature, March, 1989. US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Reference Details:
Reference Number: 468
Type: Report
Author: Carp Task Force.
Date (year): 1989
Report TitleReport to the Louisiana Legislature, March, 1989.
Publisher:US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Publisher Location:
Pages: 25 pp
URL:
Keywords: Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, bighead carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, silver carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella, grass carp, Louisiana, control
Species Profiles and Specimens that use this Reference:

Ctenopharyngodon idella

    LA - Keelboat Pass
    LA - Boeuf River near Turkey Creek. near Ferriday
    LA - Boeuf River
    LA - Ouachita River (NE Louisiana)
    LA - Bayou Big Fork
    LA - state non-specific
    LA - Bayou Little Pigeon (= Little Bayou Pigeon?)
    LA - Old River (E. Carroll Parish)
    LA - Catahoula Lake
    LA - Lake Fausse Pointe
    LA - Lake Providence
    LA - Ponchatoula Creek
    LA - LaFourche Canal
    LA - Bayou Macon drainage
    LA - Bayou Bodcau
    LA - Cutoff Lake
    LA - Tensas River, northeast LA
    LA - Atchafalaya River (rises in Avoyelles Parish goes to Atchafalaya Bay)
    LA - Round Lake
    LA - Grand Lake Basin
    LA - Lake Pontchartrain
    LA - Bayou Pierre. northwest LA
    LA - Red River
    LA - Mystic Crew Bayou
    LA - Larto Lake
    LA - Little River near its confluence with the Black River, Jonesville, LA

Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

    LA - Loggy Bayou
    LA - Ouachita River
    LA - Boeuf River [on county line]
    LA - Atchafalaya River
    LA - LaFourche Canal
    LA - Boeuf River near Turkey Creek
    LA - Boeuf River, confluence of Turkey Creek
    LA - Red River
    LA - farm pond - Miller Lake
    LA - Mississippi River and backwater lake
    LA - Ouachita Wildlife Management Area, water pumped from Lafourche canal
    LA - Little River
    LA - Black River
    LA - Mississippi River backwater
    LA - Mississippi River and backwater lake

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis

    LA - Atchafalaya River (rises in Avoyelles Parish goes to Atchafalaya Bay)
    LA - Turkey Creek near Ferriday

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