carp

• Grass carp, nile tilapia, silver carp, and variegated carp were stocked at a rate of about 12 000 fish/ha. —  Chapter 5
• Common carp or grass carp are the main species, but some tilapia are cultivated later in the year. —  Chapter 4
• It's always there, just under the surface, just behind the façade, sometimes very nearly exposed, so that you can dimly see the shape of it as you can see sometimes through the surface of an ornamental pond on a still day, the dark, gross, inhuman outline of a carp gliding slowly past; when you realize suddenly that the carp were always there below the surface, even while the water sparkled in the sunshine, and while you patronized the quaint ducks and the supercilious swans, the carp were down there, unseen. —  Pragmatic Theater
• a polyculture of grass carp, common carp, and silver carp is used in the ratio of 3: 6: 1. —  Chapter 4
• I forgot about the hat and hit the rod, again the rod went over and again I had another uneventful fight on the way in, once in the margins this carp did fight a little harder than the last one but the carp was always fighting a loosing battle and after a few minutes I slipped the net under my second fish of the day, this one turned out to be a mirror and it weighed in at 15lb 4oz, another mid double and it wasn't even midday!. —  British Blogs

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