May 4, 2016 — No, carpageddon is not a bad remake of Armageddon, where a giant carp replaces an Earth-driven asteroid. Rather, it’s an Australian government program to eradicate invasive carp, led by prime minister Barnaby Joyce, that went into effect on Monday, CNN reported.
The fish species was first introduced in Australia in 1859 and really became an ecological problem in the 1960s, CNN reported. Now, it’s estimated that they cost the country $400 million a year.
The plan behind Carpageddon would also make for a strange sci-fi plot too. To wipe out the carp species, the Australian government will release a form of herpes, cyprinid herpesvirus, into its waterways by 2018.