The Mississippi River flows 2,350 miles, borders 10 states and drains an area stretching from New York to Wyoming ...

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, ...

In the past 15 years, wildlife officials have removed 50 million pounds of invasive carp from the Illinois River. That’s ...

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 ...

The legislation directs nearly $240 million in spending from a dedicated sales tax for the outdoors, water, parks and trails and the arts Invasive silver carp and grass carp caught by commercial ...

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 Minnesota waters to date.

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, ...

A proposal to install a barrier in southern Minnesota to prevent invasive carp from moving up the Mississippi River got a surprise boost last week. After a February budget forecast showed a surplus in ...

In a last-minute move, the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council voted Tuesday to give out $12 million toward developing a deterrent to reduce the advancement of invasive carp on the Mississippi River ...

“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.

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 ...