Previous to the antrópica action of dispersion, the carp was in waters of drainage of the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, in Siberia and China also this mentioned so the west as the Blue Danube River. Food was introduced as and as I ornament almost of pools in everybody. It is today the fish of fresh but important water culture as far as volumes of production.

In Argentina it was released in many dams of the interior and in the river basin of the Silver and its distribution but to the south she is the one of the Colorado River, at which it arrived by an extraordinary overflowing of the Salado river.

Omnívoro has an nourishing regime and conducts a battle of continuous removal of bottoms, which causes a severe impact where it has been introduced, spoiling useful residences other aquatic beings, causing the continuous uprooting of macrofitia and the restoration of organic elements to the pelágico system.

A great variety of species exists although in Argentina three, the common carp only exist, the carp of espejuelos and the herbívora carp, this last one used to clean channels, and even exist a deposit in Mendoza .

Given his capacity to survive in waters with very poor oxygen levels, it is possible to find it in waters where those conditions prevent to other fish their sobreexperience. Despite its preference by waters with abundant vegetation with sandy or muddy bottoms is clear where it finds a great amount of food and that provides to him with physical strength and facilitates their great bearings. A quite common weight is of 5-6 kgs., nevertheless in the lake San Roque was a died unit of almost 30 kgs. , very over the found maximum registries in the rest of the world.

It has a robust, consistent and heavy body, little tablet, slightly curved in the belly and bent in the back. A head inclined of the nape of the neck to the snout, that is blunt. Small mouth with 2 very characteristic beards, one of each side. A long dorsal fin with 3 or 4 pectoral undivided radios with a short radius undivided anal and of great volume forked.

The color is brown greenish with golden and bluish reflections. Very dark others exist individual very clear and. In waters where the aquatic insects are abundant the carps almost feed on nymphs and emergent insects of the same form that the trouts, which has given rise to very successful experiences of fishing with fly, as much of collapse as dry flies.

Its fishing commonest is with bait, is generally used the mighty line of bottom in rivers and streams and the one of flotation, with variable depths, in lakes and lagoons. In the River of the Silver at the moment he himself equipment is used that stops rows it, 2 strong hooks, cane of medium resistance (up to 120 gr.) and paste bait of flours of afrechillo, wheat and maize, with essence of anise or grains of he himself vegetable.