Asian silver carp, like these in the Illinois River, are famous for jumping out of the water when startled. The silver carp and the related bighead carp represent a huge problem for Kentucky's ...

The fish were imported to control algae levels Asian carp may eat enough plankton to damage ecosystems Great Lakes%27 fishing industry is worth an estimated %247 billion TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — ...

Asian carp are large, voracious, and invasive. After their introduction to the United States during the early 1970s to ...

The sight of thousands of fish being washed out to sea from the rivers in Australia has spurred on calls to eradicate the invasive species by using a strange method: releasing a herpes virus.

Biologists in Kansas have just hauled an extraordinary 100,000 pounds of invasive carp out of the Kansas River, a mass removal effort aimed at giving native fish and mussels a fighting chance. The ...

New evidence proves for the first time what has long been feared: the invasive Asian carp species has reproduced in bodies of water that feed into the Great Lakes, posing a new threat to waterways ...