There apparently is no record as to when the first carp were introduced into the Mississippi River, but that introduction seems to have been the real birth of commercial fishing on the upper river, ...

A commercial fishing business contracted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources captured 30 invasive carp March 23 in the Mississippi River near Winona. While invasive carp have been ...

Commercial anglers netted nearly 83,000 pounds of Asian carp during the country’s first freshwater commercial fishing tournament. Barry Mann claimed the top prize of $10,000 after hauling 28,670 ...

It’s been four years since the discovery of an Asian carp between the electric barriers and Lake Michigan. That’s when the state went into emergency mode. They hired a select group of Illinois ...

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game might pay commercial fishermen to remove an estimated 5 million pounds of invasive carp from Lake Lowell. The carp could be sold as food in China or India, or ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Anything fish and wildlife can be brought up at Commission meetings. Friday two recommended changes took the fast track: changes to amp up the fight to eradicate an invasive fish ...

A commercial fisherman scouring the backwaters of the Illinois River last week may have caught more than he bargained for when a massive bighead carp lodged itself in his net. What's more surprising, ...

This is the first part of a series on challenges facing wildlife refuges. Read part two here. What could become the largest carp removal project in history got its start recently at the Malheur ...

WASHINGTON — It's a multi-billion dollar industry for Kentucky and President Donald Trump pledged federal support to help protect it. By signing the Natural Resources Act into law, the president not ...

For several years, invasive carp have destroyed local tourism and potentially changed lake ecology in the Twin Lakes region, which straddles Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. The area, also known ...

If there was any doubt invasive carp are making their way into Minnesota's waterways in larger and larger numbers, a development on the Mississippi River near Winona Monday makes it painfully clear it ...