Photo provided by Billy Crews -- Silver carp jump in the race of water from one of the open bays in the Bonnet Carre Spillway in the first days after the spillway in 2011 began diverting approximately 350,000 cubic feet per second of water from the Mississippi River. Silver carp and bighead carp are nonnative species and leap from the water when powerboats are near and under way in rivers, oxbow lakes and the Atchafalaya Spillway.