Water samples from the Mississippi River downstream from the Ford Dam in Minneapolis have tested positive for genetic material from silver carp, indicating the invasive Asian species may be present in ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Live Asian carp don’t necessarily have to be present for their DNA to turn up in the environment, according to a government study released Wednesday that could intensify ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Sen. Mike Jacobs wants to get Asian carp out of Illinois' waterways and onto prisoners’ lunch trays as fish patties, but first he'll have to get other lawmakers to bite. The invasive ...

Eagle Marsh remains part of an Asian carp “action plan” even though its rebuilt earthen berm is considered sufficient to prevent the spread of the invasive fish. The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating ...

Silver carp jump in the Fox River in Illinois. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee) Midwestern states are spending millions every year to ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – Asian carp are reproducing in more places and under more varied conditions than experts had believed they could, yet another reason to worry about the greedy invader’s ...

Like all great supervillains, the Asian carp have their origin story. The fish were imported from Asia—where they’ve been raised in aquaculture for thousands of years—to the Midwest in the 1970s, ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the "Asian carp" label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, ...

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. -- -- These fish jump. Oh, how they jump. It's common for an Asian carp to leap four feet out of the water and flop into whatever may rumble into its path, be it watercraft or ...

Consider the Quad-Cities as doing a taste test to determine if there's some use for what many consider the bane of the Mississippi River basin and potentially the Great Lakes ecosystem: the Asian carp ...

ST. PAUL -- Three options appear viable to help stop the advance of Asian carp into Minnesota, but after years of talk disputes remain about how to best halt the invasion. Legislators on the House ...