State Rep. Monty Fritts, of Kingston, held an education session for people to learn more about the impact of invasive carp.

As a brand, Asian carp have two big problems: The name strikes many as both racially insensitive and decidedly unpalatable — a trash fish. How about some “copi” instead? In a marketing event Wednesday ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- While plenty of marine scientists are tracking the ocean's sea creatures, Alfredo Girón-Nava is tracking the vessels working to harvest them: the commercial fishing industry.

A commercial fisherman working on the Illinois River near Morris netted one of the largest bighead carp ever recorded on June 14. The giant carp weighed 109 pounds, according to the Illinois River ...

For decades, officials have worried the fish could wreak disaster on the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem and the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When most people in Three Forks look at the westernmost community pond, they see a sad hole full ...

For several years, invasive carp have destroyed local tourism and potentially changed lake ecology in the Twin Lakes region, which straddles Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. The area, also known ...

A new law in Kentucky prohibits the use of aircraft and drones for hunting and fishing. Exceptions to the law include ...

Carp are far more sensitive to vibration than most anglers realise. Heavy footsteps, clattering banksticks or a badly timed ...

A commercial fisherman scouring the backwaters of the Illinois River last week may have caught more than he bargained for when a massive bighead carp lodged itself in his net. What's more surprising, ...

If there was any doubt invasive carp are making their way into Minnesota's waterways in larger and larger numbers, a development on the Mississippi River near Winona Monday makes it painfully clear it ...