In Australian rivers has too many carp.
The program, called “Karmageddon”, is estimated at 11 million dollars.
Australian politician Barnaby Joyce, previously declared war on dogs, johnny Depp, has a new enemy – the European carp.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the only way to get rid of “Donna, graziosa” fish – to arrange in a population the epidemic of cold sores.
The program, called “Karmageddon”, is estimated at 11 million dollars. Her goal is 95% clear from the carp pool of the rivers the Murray and the darling.
Passionate speech about Joyce carp sounded in the lower house of the Australian Parliament, where she reacted with laughter.
Carp were first brought to Australia in 1859, but its population began to grow exponentially in the 1960s after the farm Karpov accidentally released into the wild.
It is assumed that individuals of a carp make up 80-90% of the total biomass of fish in the basin of the Murray and the darling, the most important agricultural region of Australia.
Carp are well adapted to the new conditions and multiply rapidly, creating competition for local fish.
Their jaws are devoid of teeth, because of what they have to eat at the bottom of the river, which causes erosion and makes the water cloudy, degrading its quality.
According to Joyce, too large population of carp costs the Australian economy about 380 million dollars annually.
The Minister for science Christopher Pyne said that the virus will not have a negative influence on the person, but the difficulty lies in cleaning the rivers from dead carp.
“Suddenly in the Murray river will be literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of tons of dead carp,” said pine.
