How to Use bighead in a Sentence

bighead

noun
  • Those species include silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp and black carp.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Black, bighead, grass and silver carp occupy numerous lakes, rivers and streams.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • Subsequent netting and electroshocking in both areas failed to turn up a silver or bighead carp, dead or alive.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Four species of Asian carp are found in the Upper Midwest — bighead, black, grass and silver.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Siwik often fishes for spoonbill catfish and said the bighead carp fight similarly to that species.
    — Mike Organ, USA TODAY, 3 July 2022
  • For instance, bighead and silver carp eat plankton and native mussels, leaving native fish to go hungry.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
  • Invasive across the United States, these carp include silver, bighead, grass and black carp.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The other was a bighead carp caught in Chicago’s Lake Calumet in 2010.
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2017
  • The bighead and silver have proven to reproduce in high numbers and be especially destructive.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Of particular concern to the Great Lakes are silver and bighead carp, which gorge on plankton that other fish need.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2017
  • The department already has been actively tracking bighead carp, in fact, that’s how the silver carp was captured and implanted.
    — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The bighead pupfish swims in the Baños de San Diego, which reaches 111 Farenheit.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Audiences who already know the names, places, and songs will have a bighead start over newcomers; there are English subtitles, but a great deal goes untranslated.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • When restoration began in 2007, invasive common carp could be found in Emiquon, but silver and bighead carp were not believed to be inside.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
  • Silver carp also tend to eventually outcompete bighead carp to become the dominant species of a water, Chapman said.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
  • Asian carp Skip to main content The Asian carp is an umbrella term for a number of invasive species of fish, including the bighead, black, grass and silver carp.
    — Max Cohen, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Along with the basic bigheads, there also is a variant bighead of Lionel Messi in the black Inter Miami kit.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
  • The bighead, grass and silver carp in this case are different from the carp known as German carp or common carp which have lived in Wisconsin since the mid-1800s.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The positive bighead carp result came from one out of 100 samples taken from the Milwaukee River, according to the Service.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Signs are being installed at public boat ramps along the Tennessee River in north Alabama to help boaters and anglers identify the fish - bighead and silver carp – if they are seen or harvested from the river.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The four species described collectively as Asian carp — bighead, silver, grass and black carp — were brought from China a half-century ago to rid Southern sewage and aquaculture ponds of algae, weeds and parasites.
    — John Flesher, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2021
  • The four species described collectively as Asian carp — bighead, silver, grass and black carp — were brought from China a half-century ago to rid Southern sewage and aquaculture ponds of algae, weeds and parasites.
    — John Flesher, ajc, 15 July 2021
  • While environmental groups and scientists have put much of their attention on preventing the bighead and silver carp from reaching the lakes, the grass carp already have been found in Lakes Erie, Michigan and Ontario.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The effort is focused on taking on bighead, grass and silver carp, non-native species that have caused damage to ecosystems in Illinois, Missouri and Ohio river systems, and are spreading north via the Mississippi.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2021
  • No bighead or silver carp have ever been reported in Lake Michigan, said Greg McClinchey, the commission's director of policy and legislative affairs.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Mar. 2026
  • After extreme flooding events in the 1980s and 1990s, the fish escaped into the Mississippi River basin, and, alongside silver carp, bighead remain the most detrimental to aquatic environments.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026

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