In late July, a team of researchers set out on the Mississippi River near La Crosse to lay a new kind of trap for invasive carp. The researchers hope it will prove to be another tool to fight the ...

A giant infrastructure project aims to block invasive carp from entering Lake Michigan, but Chicago’s polluted water already keeps them out.

For decades, officials have worried the fish could wreak disaster on the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem and the ...

On a vast stretch of the Mississippi River, Kayla Zankle drags a trawl over the front of an aluminum fishing boat. A custom metal frame clangs loudly as the net swings into the water below, where ...

Big money is available for anyone who catches an invasive species in the Mississippi River. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is offering a bounty for catching black carp. The ‘Keep, Cool, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Asian carp, an invasive species accidentally introduced into the Mississippi River Basin in the 1970s, have become a significant threat to Arkansas's aquatic ecosystems and ...

A snack from Pezzy, a mission-driven pet food startup, has just one ingredient: wild-caught silver carp from the Mississippi River. Carp are an invasive species in the river and incredibly destructive ...

The state of Illinois received two small parcels of land near the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in a donation earlier this month that advocates and officials are calling a ...

Invasive carp are not yet common so far upriver, and the agencies hope to keep it that way. The floating feeders will dispense food four times a day, then commercial fishers will go out to the feeders ...

Kayla Zankle, invasive carp specialist with the Minnesota DNR, adjusts the ichthyoplankton trawl on Pool 8 of the Mississippi River near La Crosse. The trawl is used to collect fish eggs suspended in ...