Facts about carp

Common carp are absolutely omnivorous. They form their diet both from aquatic plants and from small invertebrates, eggs of other fish, leeches, various worms and other small things. In part, it is omnivorousness that explains their good adaptation to various conditions.

These fish are extremely fertile, an adult female carp aged 5-6 years lays up to 600-800 thousand eggs per season. But 99.9% of them will be eaten by small river predators in the near future, and a considerable part, although they will turn into fry, will still not be able to live to adulthood.

A popular decorative fish are carp carp, also known as koi, which were once bred from the Amur subspecies of common carp. For centuries, breeders have selected individuals with unusual coloring and placed them separately so that they would mate with each other and reproduce. Interestingly, it was mainly Japanese peasants who were engaged in this

In many countries, carp are one of the main objects of sport fishing, and in some farms they are specially bred for this purpose. In addition, the taste qualities of this fish are excellent, it is tasty in almost any form. Fish soup from it turns out to be absolutely wonderful.

Over the past centuries, breeders have bred a huge number of different breeds of this fish. But the common wild carp, from which everything actually started, are now on the verge of extinction due to excessive fishing, and they were even included in the international Red Book.

Common carp adapt so well to their new living conditions that they begin to displace the rest of the local residents. In this competition, they win so successfully that they were even included in the list of the 100 most dangerous invasive species on Earth. Despite this, carps have important industrial importance and are grown in fish farms all over the world.