What Is This?

[Outside Bend]

Yes, buffalo are native to the Mississippi River basin.

[flyrodman]

I think the Black Carp is the next species due to wreak havoc to our waters.

A couple have been caught in the Mississippi River Basin, a few I them were diploid or assumed to be fertile and one was triploid or assumed to be sterile. Their food source is mainly snails and mollusks which are abundant in some rivers so I would think that if they could reproduce fast enough, they could quickly spread like some of the other carp species in the U.S.

[skiburd]

Technically? Yeah I think so.

Carp were brought here from Europe back around 1890 for food. Asian carp later to control algae and vegetation in ponds

[Haris122]

Carp were brought here from Europe back around 1890 for food. Asian carp later to control algae and vegetation in ponds

I think what they meant is that technically, even the common carp was first brought from Asia into Europe. So even it is "Asian".