A rogue bighead carp was pulled from the Lower St. Croix River this week, adding to fears the invasive creatures are slowly working their way into Minnesota border waters. A commercial fisherman ...

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 ...

LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. — Invasive carp are stirring up trouble at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area. The Pennsylvania Game Commission is on a mission to eradicate non-native, invasive carp from the ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — You’re in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. Ugh, you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River? Here’s the catch: ...

ST. LOUIS - For years, boaters and fishermen on many Midwestern rivers have battled a fish with a bizarre behavior - silver carp that launch themselves into the air, jumping into boats and often ...

TREMPEALEAU, Wis. — More than 300 invasive carp were pulled from the Mississippi River near Trempealeau, Wis., in late November, the largest single capture of the nuisance fish in Wisconsin and ...

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 ...

IT'S been more than fifty years since carp exploded into our waterways following widespread flooding across the Murray Darling Basin in the 1970s.

In the early 1900s, closer to a time when Kentucky was an unspoiled Eden, jewel-like freshwater mussels paved the beds of the streams and rivers that ran freely throughout the state. So prized were ...

UTAH COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — Utah Lake Authority is offering a monetary prize of $1,000 to the person who catches the most carp from Utah Lake to try to get carp overpopulation under control. “When I ...