Word: amur
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...other fish. Delicious to eat, it would also be such a powerful jumper and swimmer that sportsmen would revere its ability as a fighter. As an extra benefit, this paragon would feast on something that nobody wants. Does such a fish exist? Indeed, yes. It is called the white amur (Ctenopharyngodon idella), a member of the carp family that is native to eastern Asia, where it is prized as a delicacy. Three feet in length and 70 lbs. in weight, an adult amur just loves to eat-so much, in fact, that it is said to consume old shoes...
Enter the white amur, which operates like a biological vacuum cleaner, eating up to four times its own weight in algae every day. In 1963 the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries imported some amurs from Malaysia, later turned 70 of them over to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for study. Outlets were carefully blocked with wire mesh to prevent any from escaping. Still, accidents will happen, and last spring Arkansas biologists found a few white amurs in the White River, a tributary of the Mississippi. Since eight years of research had disclosed no faults in the amur...
Many imported fish-most notably the Asian walking catfish in Florida and the European carp in all states -have adapted so successfully to U.S. waters that they have crowded out valuable indigenous species. Other scientists fear that the amur could conceivably eat a lake's entire supply of vegetation and thus trigger a serious new kind of ecological imbalance. But, says Collins, "if we thought the amur was a monster, we wouldn't stock...
...much of 1969, the threat of a major conflict hovered over the 4,500-mile frontier between the Soviet Union and China. In at least two all-out battles this year on the Ussuri and Amur rivers, which separate Siberia and Manchuria, the Soviets called in armor and heavy artillery to pound the Chinese. Tensions rose to the point where the Soviets hinted that they might even launch a preventive strike against China's nuclear installations unless Peking agreed to negotiations aimed at settling the conflict. The war of nerves was threatening to get out of hand. Last week...
...full-scale war ever erupts between the Soviet Union and China, a likely location for the opening battle is the Chinese region of Sinkiang. Occupying almost one-sixth of China's area, Sinkiang contains several volatile ingredients. Unlike other disputed border areas farther east, where the Amur and Ussuri rivers create a natural boundary, the 1,500-mile Sinkiang-Soviet frontier in many stretches is only vaguely demarcated. In addition, the area is the site of one of the most tempting targets in all of China: the nuclear testing grounds...