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 ...

A snack from Pezzy, a mission-driven pet food startup, has just one ingredient: wild-caught silver carp from the Mississippi River. Carp are an invasive species in the river and incredibly destructive ...

On a vast stretch of the Mississippi River, Kayla Zankle drags a trawl over the front of an aluminum fishing boat. A custom metal frame clangs loudly as the net swings into the water below, where ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources confirmed the capture of a bighead carp and two silver carp within the past several weeks. The bighead carp was captured at the Xcel Energy ...

Since their introduction into the Mississippi River Basin by accident in the 1970s, invasive Asian carp have grown to pose one of the greatest economic and ecological challenges facing the river's ...

Local anglers were excited about the program. Officials issue $100 bounties for fishermen to catch harmful creatures: 'My ...

Invasive carp are not yet common so far upriver, and the agencies hope to keep it that way. The floating feeders will dispense food four times a day, then commercial fishers will go out to the feeders ...