Commercial harvest has been one of the most effective tools in suppressing carp populations. Partnering state and federal agencies are removing millions of pounds of invasive carp annually from the ...

A quiet invasion makes for troubled waters on the area's big rivers and some related backwater slough lakes. The lower Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland and Mississippi rivers nowadays teem with a pair of ...

Since their introduction into the Mississippi River Basin by accident in the 1970s, invasive Asian carp have grown to pose one of the greatest economic and ecological challenges facing the river's ...

ST. LOUIS -- The Asian carp many fear could destroy the Great Lakes' $7 billion-a-year fishing industry make up half of Mike Schafer's business, which in just over a year has turned 12 million pounds ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Illinois officials took possession last week of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed ...

A group of scientists made the case recently for disconnecting the Illinois River from Lake Michigan to slam the door on invasive species moving back and forth. Zebra mussels and round gobies are ...

The team from Carp Solutions place carp into containers that were trapped in baited enclosures set up around Lake Fremont in Sherburne County in Zimmerman, Minn., on July 2.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) -- An increase in carp is causing a smelly problem for some Clear Lake residents. This year's wet weather has caused more water to flow from the lake into Clear Creek, and that ...