The current invasive carp population front on the Illinois River is approximately 47 miles from Lake Michigan.

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 ...

TAYLORSVILLE, Ky. — The DNA of two invasive fish species were found in a lake just an hour away from Louisville, Kentucky. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KYFW) partnered with ...

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 ...

Construction can start on a long-awaited project designed to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes after Illinois signed on to an agreement with Michigan and the federal government. The ...

Invasive silver carp have been spreading throughout the Mississippi River Basin since their introduction a half-century ago. Yet, try as they might, the fish have not advanced beyond a particular ...

Officials say commercial fishers have more incentive to catch and remove invasive carp from Kentucky waters. The Kentucky ...

The Northwest-Midwest Institute in Washington, D.C., will hold a virtual briefing Dec. 13 to discuss the benefits of carp management in the Mississippi River Basin and the Great Lakes. The ...

After netting its largest-ever catch of invasive carp in the Mississippi River in November, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is moving ahead with a revised plan to keep the bottom-feeding ...

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, ...

“If you can create a successful market around the fish, then the markets can be a tool to manage them,” says Ben Meadows, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama Birmingham.