It has been a big day in Australia: Carp, carp and some more carp.
Yea, no one here really knows what is going on either. Let’s break it down.
On Sunday, the Australian government announced a A$15 million project to release the herpes virus into a river to kill off a huge amount of a type of fish that is considered a massive pest. This fish is carp. It looks like this:
Hi, I am carp.
Image: Getty Images/StockFood
They are going to kill thousands of tonnes of European carp in the Murray-Darling River. Some people are warning that this is going to end in a big pile of dead, smelly fish.
Other people, such as the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, are just getting used to saying the word. Read more…
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