The invasive Asian carp species will be renamed due to the term's 'horrible, xenophobic connotations' in the wake of a surge of anti-Asian hate crimes. Asian carp are called "Asian Carp" because they originated IN ASIA. But the last straw came when an Asian business delegation arriving at the Minneapolis airport encountered a sign reading 'Kill Asian Carp.' But what new label for Asian carp will be considered official - 'invasive carp,' which has been criticized as imprecise, or whatever the marketing blitz comes up with? The committee has never adopted 'Asian carp' as a term for the four invasive species, Page said.

Source: Daily Mail July 18, 2021 15:00 UTC