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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Silver carp jump in the Fox River in Illinois. Photo by Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Invasive Carp Regional ...

The Plain Dealer finds President Barack Obama's silence on the Asian carp problem "inexplicable" ("Carp complacency," Thursday). Au contraire, Plain Dealer. Obama's actions, whether involving carp, ...

Don’t buy a lottery ticket. There is a better way to get rich. All you have to do is invent a solution to the Asian carp threat to the Great Lakes. The state of Michigan has a $1 million prize purse ...

Asian carp are large, voracious, and invasive. After their introduction to the United States during the early 1970s to control algal blooms and snails in aquaculture ponds, Asian carp escaped and ...

A group of scientists made the case recently for disconnecting the Illinois River from Lake Michigan to slam the door on invasive species moving back and forth. Zebra mussels and round gobies are ...

What do you do with a bony, ugly, jumpy, fat, fugitive fish that has taken over the Mississippi and Illinois rivers and threatens the ecology of the Great Lakes?

The Associated Press reported a federal study says Lake Erie and some rivers flowing into it would offer ideal habitat for unwanted Asian carp. The U.S. Geological Survey says the Maumee, Sandusky and ...