Historical example of a domestic dining room in Germany. A dining room is a room for consuming food. In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level.
The silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish, a variety of Asian carp native to China and eastern Siberia. Although a threatened species in its natural habitat, it has long been cultivated in China.
Like other Asian carp, grass carp are river spawners that often use lakes or lake-like environments connected to large rivers for feeding. This means that the marshes, bays, drowned river mouth lakes and bayous of the Great Lakes basin could be at risk if grass carp establish breeding populations.