Wild Carp

[Kingfisher]

In 1831 the common carp was introduced to America. It was then distributed by the American government as a food fish in the 1900's.

[Estaban]

Great catch Gary

Thanks Kingfisher, hadn't read it that far yet. Seems the U.S. government had a huge (by the trainload) stocking program from 1877-1897 from fish originally brought in from Germany. I did find mention of there being two varieties of carp coming out of Germany at the time, Bohemian and Galician.
https://archive.org/stream/notesonfishc ... 1/mode/2up p.321-322

[Kingfisher]

That's a very interesting read. How on earth did you find it?

[Estaban]

I went to the library of congress website, and searched using keywords like fishery, carp, stocking etc. the results could then be filtered by years and type of media

here are a couple of interesting ones I found there as well

https://archive.org/stream/historyofcar ... 2/mode/2up

https://archive.org/stream/fishinginame ... 7/mode/2up