THE Murray River may be
about to get a bit clearer
after Barnaby Joyce, Minister
for Agriculture and Water
Resources declared a plan to
fight carp with herpes.
The federal government
wants to release cyprinid
herpesvirus (carp herpes virus)
into the Murray River to kill
around 95% of the carp.
Dubbed “Carpageddon”, the
$15m initiative aims to rid the
Murray-Darling Basin of the
non-native.
The species’ toothless jaws
mean they need to feed at the
bottom of rivers, which causes
erosion and makes the water
turbid, reducing water quality.
