POMME DE TERRE LAKE, Minn. — Finding ways to control the common carp in Minnesota lakes has been an issue that researchers have looked at for years. Now, another virus specific to the common carp is ...

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 ...

They're known as the rabbits of the waterways, but it's hoped in the next couple of years a new biological control could reduce Australia's carp population by up to 80 per cent. Carp's destructive ...

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, ...

Illinois officials this month announced that Asian carp would now be called “copi” in an attempt to make the fish more desirable for eating. Joseph Parkos, the director of the Illinois Natural History ...

The on-going drought is having at least one positive spin-off - fewer carp are being distributed through our inland waterways. Known as the vermin of inland waterways, carp became a major pest in ...