Asian carp are large, voracious, and invasive. After their introduction to the United States during the early 1970s to ...
HAVANA, Ill. (AP) – As scientists aboard a research boat activate an electric current, the calm Illinois River transforms into a roiling, silvery mass. Asian carp by the dozen hurtle from the water as ...
The hosts of Today in Ohio couldn’t help themselves. Even when discussing what should be straightforward good news about Great Lakes protection, they found themselves descending into darkly humorous ...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – Asian carp are reproducing in more places and under more varied conditions than experts had believed they could, yet another reason to worry about the greedy invader’s ...
The tons of carp were removed from the Kansas River over several years, including a record 36,000 pounds of invasive fish in ...
Biologists hit the milestone last year as their eradication campaign against unwanted Asian carp continues.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the "Asian carp" label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, ...
A similar railroad at Brandon Road or some other pinch-point in the canals that connect the Mississippi and the Great Lakes could be built.
Great Lakes states sue for fed help containing unstoppable Asian carp spread. Sept. 7, 2010 — -- The Great Lakes states are taking the ongoing war against an unlikely invader -- Asian carp-- to a ...
Like all great supervillains, the Asian carp have their origin story. The fish were imported from Asia—where they’ve been raised in aquaculture for thousands of years—to the Midwest in the 1970s, ...
A quiet invasion makes for troubled waters on the area's big rivers and some related backwater slough lakes. The lower Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland and Mississippi rivers nowadays teem with a pair of ...
The carp was found in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal - just above the Lockport lock and dam. "I saw it and we netted it and brought it on board and I passed it up to the chain of command," said ...