Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Biologist Andrew Jansen, back, drives a boat checking for silver carp in the Kansas River.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Silver carp jump from the water as boats pass, posing a danger to boaters.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Biologists Blake Matthews, front, and Andrew Jansen with some of the silver carp that jumped into the boat.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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A silver carp as it passes between Blake Matthews, front, and Andrew Jansen.
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The end of a boat paddle after being used to deflect silver carp from jumping into the boat.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. Andrew Jansen is operating the boat in Kansas City.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Silver carp stack after jumping into a passing boat on the Kansas River.
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Asian carp, like this silver carp, have very rapid growth rates, like on this two-year-old fish. It could reach 60 pounds.
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A view of downtown Kansas City from where the Missouri and Kansas Rivers meet.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Scott Sigman shows the size of a two-year-old silver carp. Silvers and bighead carp are invasive species that threaten native fish populations.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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An airborne silver carp that jumped as the boat passed. Some of the fish can clear the water by six to eight feet.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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Blake Matthews uses a boat paddle to deflect silver carp jumping into the boat on the Kansas River. More than 50 of the fish landed in the boat in about an hour of boating.
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