Australia Will Fight Its Pesky Fish Population With $11 Million Worth of Herpes
Australia has a carp problem. According to Barnaby Joyce, the country’s minister for agriculture and water resources, managing the fish—also known as “Australia’s worst freshwater aquatic pest”—costs about $380 million USD per year. Researchers, however, have developed a novel way of dealing with the problem: a carp-specific herpes virus called Cyprinid herpesvirus. And on Sunday,…
