Want to know what carp eat? Believe it or not, carp have one of the most diverse palates of all freshwater fishing swimming in the United States. They’re herbivores, and while they dine on a massive ...

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, ...

Faced with overwhelming numbers of invasive carp disrupting native species and ecosystems, Arkansas is taking charge of the future with a major solution: getting Americans to eat the invasives. Since ...

ST. LOUIS — Cod, catfish and shrimp will find their way to St. Louisans' plates as fish fry season officially kicks off on Feb. 14. However, a fish not often offered on menus is becoming a larger ...

MISSOURI, USA — An "environmental ticking timebomb" threatens the Mississippi River and Missouri's waterways. A new kids' book offers a potentially simple and effective solution. Carp were introduced ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – You’re in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. Ugh, you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River? Here’s the catch: ...

Invasive fish species can drive out native species, upsetting the balance of the ecosystems in which they appear. One of the ways that ecologists have been encouraging people to deal with these ...

The fish, weighing up to 100 pounds and eating 10% of their weight in algae every day, could pose an existential threat to ...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has confirmed a species of black carp is in the state. The invasive fish ...

“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.