The Minnesota DNR says 83 invasive carp were pulled from the Mississippi River near Winona in mid-February, just the latest event in an ongoing effort to control the population of the destructive and ...

For more than two decades, federal and state agencies have been trying to prevent Asian carp from taking hold in the Great Lakes. Part of the prevention is limiting the spread of carp in the ...

Invasive silver carp have been found in the lower Chippewa and Black rivers in western Wisconsin, the state Department of Natural Resources announced Monday. The find stemmed from a July tip from ...

Silver carp jump in the Fox River in Illinois. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee) Credit: Ryan Hagerty / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) will pay you to fish, but only if you catch a tagged silver carp. TWRA is running a "silver carp reward tag project" in collaboration with Kentucky ...

The new carp plan calls for increased research and monitoring with more commercial netting and potential barriers to slow the invaders' spread. Silver carp jump in the Illinois River when spooked by a ...

Asian carp are large, voracious, and invasive. After their introduction to the United States during the early 1970s to ...

Fort Peck Reservoir is just a minnow bucket away from disaster. In fact, it's just two minnows away. Of all the ecological threats the lake faces, the illegal introduction of Asian carp sits at the ...

Scientist Jim Lamer holds an invasive silver carp on the Illinois River. (Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco/WNIJ-Northern Public Radio) Buy Photo Midwestern states are ...

Midwestern states are spending millions every year to prevent a giant, goggle-eyed fish from invading rivers and lakes. But the Asian carp has firmly established a home in the Mississippi River basin, ...