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Microchemistry demographics and development data from wild caught black carp in the Mississippi River basin, 2011-18

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Start Date
2011-05-10
End Date
2018-09-11

Citation

Whitledge, G.W., Kroboth, P.T., Chapman, D.C., Phelps, Q.E., Sleeper, W., Bailey, J., and Jenkins, J.A., 2022, Microchemistry demographics and development data from wild caught black carp in the Mississippi River basin, 2011-18: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90DD6NT.

Summary

Data consists of ploidy, otolith stable isotope analysis and microchemistry, age, weight, sex, length and geolocation data from wild caught black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) captured in the Mississippi River basin from 2011 through 2018.

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Microchemistry_development_data.txt 21.69 KB text/plain
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Purpose

Black Carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) is an invasive fish species introduced to the USA to control aquaculture pond snails. This species has escaped captivity and occurs in parts of the Mississippi River, several tributaries, and floodplain lakes, which is concerning due to potential competition with native fishes and predation on native mussels, many of which are imperiled. However, Black Carp captures have primarily been incidental by commercial fishers and evidence of reproduction in the wild is limited. The objectives of this study were to assess relative abundance of aquaculture-origin and wild Black Carp using ploidy and otolith stable isotope analysis, identify spatial extent of natural reproduction using otolith microchemistry, assess age distributions of wild and aquaculture-source Black Carp to infer years in which natural reproduction occurred and timing of aquaculture escapement or introductions, and estimate size and age at maturation to assess whether recruitment to adulthood has occurred.

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