What does Asian Carp eat?
-Asian carp eat a lot. One species, the Grass carp, can eat up to 40% of its body weight in plants every day. The other three species consume up to 20% of their body weight daily. Bighead and silver carp eat plankton, which native mussels and young native fish depend on. Grass carp mostly consume plants. Black carp have human-like molars and eat snails and mussels, including native species that are already endangered. When the amount of plants, mussels, and plankton are lower in our lakes and rivers, the ecosystem becomes unbalanced and our population of food will decrease.
-Which means the Asian carp eat almost everything.
-Which means the Asian carp eat almost everything.