Four years ago I was damage control trapping Beaver in Red Deer but this was a pond about two hundred meters from the river , My trap was a 10 inch body grip rotating jaw about three ft under water along the bank , I checked it every morning for five days and it never appeared to have been fired , so the last day I pulled the set and much to my surprise I had a fish in the jaws ! It was still alive as it was caught by the tail only , It did not appear like any I recognized so I took a picture and sent it to a biologist , They called t a Prussian Carp . So I assume this fish had came into the pond with flood waters , subsequent to this a year later I saw one in the creek near bower ponds , so according to the F&W they are here to stay ! And yesterday again I saw a partially eaten one on a Beaver house in the same creek .
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