The sight of thousands of fish being washed out to sea from the rivers in Australia has spurred on calls to eradicate the invasive species by using a strange method: releasing a herpes virus.

At 2,500 km long, the Murray is Australia’s longest river. It provides 3 million people with drinking water and irrigates ...

That’s the enormous carp biomass infesting our waterways, including in the River Murray. South Australia has the highest concentration of the feral fish at about 500kg a hectare. Anything higher than ...

Ivor Stuart is a fisheries researcher at the Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University. He receives funding from the Australian Government to undertake fisheries research in the Murray-Darling Basin ...

With widespread La Niña flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin, common carp (Cyprinus carpio) populations are having a boom year. Videos of writhing masses of both adult and young fish illustrate that ...