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Carp prefer slow moving rivers and streams and warm lake habitats with abundant vegetation. They feed on a wide variety of plant and animal food items from the waters surface, from vegetation and rocks, and from stream and lake bottoms. Shallow sloughs and marshes, adjacent to stream channels or lakes, are preferred breeding habitats. Carp are omnivorous (eating both plants and animals), their bottom feeding habits causing great destruction of aquatic resources.
Carp prefer slow moving rivers and streams and warm lake habitats with abundant vegetation. They feed on a wide variety of plant and animal food items from the waters surface, from vegetation and rocks, and from stream and lake bottoms. Shallow sloughs and marshes, adjacent to stream channels or lakes, are preferred breeding habitats. Carp are omnivorous (eating both plants and animals), their bottom feeding habits causing great destruction of aquatic resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carp
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/crp/
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/aquaticanimals/commoncarp/index.html
http://www.in.gov/dnr/files/COMMON_CARP.pdf