The fishing tournament targeted a species seldom, if ever, the focus of such fishing contests: grass carp — aka white amur - a native of Asia and a voracious herbivore that can grow as large as 60 ...

An invasive plant species continues to spread in Lake Austin. Now, the city is taking a more aggressive approach to stop the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — A controversial plan to release grass carp in Lake Austin to fight hydrilla is drawing backlash from local ...

Researchers have fresh evidence that invasive grass carp are swimming and spawning near the mouth of a river that flows into Lake Erie. Their next step is figuring out how to stop it from gaining a ...

Originally from eastern Asia, the grass carp has been making itself at home in the Great Lakes region. The invasive species has been breeding in tributaries on the west side of Lake Erie, and may be ...

Weed controllers -- that's what grass carp are. And the ones that have been in New Fairfield's Ball Pond since 1997 are doing a great job of it. Back then, with the approval of the state Department of ...

Landowners with farm ponds look at various options to control weeds in the pond. Grass carp may offer biological control of some unwanted aquatic vegetation. Grass carp may be a good option for some, ...

Our triploid grass carp must be happy. All the rain we had in December made lake levels rise, submerging stretches of grassy shoreline in shallow water. The carp, which eat only plant matter, have ...

MIDLAND, MI — An invasive species of carp capable of reproducing has been found in mid-Michigan’s Tittabawassee River for the first time. Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel on March 17 ...

A ripe jackfruit tumbling into a pond turned into a free buffet, drawing a school of grass carp that swarmed in to devour it. No feast was planned but the pond jolted alive when a ripe jackfruit fell ...