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 ...

An angler spotted something weird floating in Lake Huron in July. It turned out to be an enormous grass carp, one of the most invasive fish the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada has ever dealt ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS -- The Asian carp many fear could destroy the Great Lakes' $7 billion-a-year fishing industry make up half of Mike Schafer's business, which in just over a year has turned 12 million pounds ...

Residents are invited to be part of the solution. Workers remove jaw-dropping 100,000 pounds of harmful creatures from US waterway: 'Positive effects' first appeared on The Cool Down.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Illinois officials took possession last week of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed ...

"Doubles!" said Adam McDaniel, right, as crew members pulled two silver carp out of Missouri's Lamine River in late September. McDaniel is an aquatic resource scientist and boat operator for the ...

The team from Carp Solutions place carp into containers that were trapped in baited enclosures set up around Lake Fremont in Sherburne County in Zimmerman, Minn., on July 2.