The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) will pay you to fish, but only if you catch a tagged silver carp. TWRA is running a "silver carp reward tag project" in collaboration with Kentucky ...

From old-school nets to unmanned kayaks, biologists and commercial anglers are experimenting with new tools in their arsenal to stem the advance of invasive carp while they await the construction of ...

Invasive silver carp have been on the verge of invading the Great Lakes from the Illinois River for a decade, but they can't seem to get past a pool south of Chicago. New University of Illinois Urbana ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — Cast your reels with a sigh of relief, fishermen. In a Sept. 6 survey, the US Fish and Wildlife Service detected no evidence of silver carp eDNA in the St. Joseph River, after ...

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 ...

Asian carp, four different species originating from Asia, are widespread in the Mississippi River and surrounding streams. The fish – grass carp, black carp, bighead carp and silver carp – were ...

OGLESBY, Ill — The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says a record amount of invasive silver carp have been pulled from an Illinois River impoundment using seine nets. Between Nov. 27 and Dec.

A small fleet made its way up the Illinois River, its crew armed with landing nets and football helmets as if to fend off an invasion. Minutes after launching from the riverbank in the village of Bath ...

Invasive silver carp have been spreading throughout the Mississippi River Basin since their introduction a half-century ago. Yet, try as they might, the fish have not advanced beyond a particular ...

It’s a nightmarish scenario that unfortunately could become real: an invading group of 30-pound fish leaping 10 feet into the air out of the once-calm waters of Melton Hill Lake, Oak Ridge’s popular ...

Kentucky wildlife officials are turning invasive carp into a cash crop for motivated anglers.

Commercial harvest has been one of the most effective tools in suppressing carp populations. Partnering state and federal agencies are removing millions of pounds of invasive carp annually from the ...