{"id":2108,"date":"2022-02-02T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/?page_id=2108"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:29:38","slug":"carp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/species\/carp\/","title":{"rendered":"Carp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Karpfen-5-1024x420.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1415\" style=\"width:512px;height:210px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Karpfen-5-1024x420.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Karpfen-5-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Karpfen-5-768x315.png 768w, https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Karpfen-5-1536x630.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Karpfen-5-2048x840.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the history of aquaculture, carp are among the oldest species cultivated in freshwater. Carp are an important segment of global aquaculture. The amount of carp (<em>Cyprinus carpio<\/em>) produced worldwide in 2024 was 4.2 million tons (FAO, 2026). In Germany, carp ranks second in production, just behind rainbow trout. Together, the three main Asian producing countries China, Indonesia and Vietnam account for three quarters of the global carp production (FAO, 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carp prefer stagnant or slow-moving water, which is why they are usually kept in pond farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"sources-and-detailed-scientific-information-on-carp-can-be-found-at\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources and detailed scientific information on carp can be found at:  <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/fishery\/culturedspecies\/cyprinus_carpio\/en\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FAO: Common carp<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.fao.org\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/09d03e2f-7097-4d59-bf94-db65e95f44fd\/content\/cd8357en.html#gsc.tab=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FAO, 2026. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2026<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fischinfo.de\/images\/broschueren\/pdf\/FIZ_DF_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FIZ, 2024. Fischwirtschaft &#8211; Daten und Fakten 2024 (German)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p >In the history of aquaculture, carp are among the oldest species cultivated in freshwater. Carp are an important segment of global aquaculture. The amount of carp (<em>Cyprinus carpio<\/em>) produced worldwide in 2024 was 4.2 million tons (FAO, 2026). In Germany, carp ranks second in production, just behind rainbow trout. Together, the three main Asian producing <span >\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":2100,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post post-type-page post-view- post-scope-","status-publish","clear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2108\/revisions\/2600"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aquaculture-welfare-standards.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}