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Case Study 3
Your colleague believes that this photographed fish from Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit can be identified as a black carp. Using the details given below by the angler, decide whether or not this fish has been identified correctly and whether or not it was rightfully killed as an invasive species.
- Found in Missouri River
- Found in lower layer
- No scales on head
- No teeth
- Long, flat head
- Rows of hard, bony plates