Invasive fish species can drive out native species, upsetting the balance of the ecosystems in which they appear. One of the ways that ecologists have been encouraging people to deal with these ...

Silver carp jump in the Fox River in Illinois. Photo by Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee. Midwestern states are spending millions every year ...

Silver carp jump in the Fox River in Illinois. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee) Credit: Ryan Hagerty / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has launched its rebranding effort to encourage people to eat Asian carp by giving it a new name: Copi. Copi is short for ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Almost nobody in Illinois wants to eat Asian carp. 'There's no market for them. I've had one or two people ask for them,' said Clint Carter, co-owner of Carter's Fish Market, ...

CHICAGO -- Asian carp may be a plankton-gobbling nuisance threatening the Great Lakes, but Illinois officials on Thursday expressed their hope to change that perception one bite at a time. The ...

HAVANA, Ill. (AP) -- They've been called dangerous invaders. They've been called a deadly threat to other fish that inhabit the Great Lakes. Now ecology officials and fishermen have a new name for the ...

CHICAGO — Diners in China could soon help control the Asian carp that are infesting Illinois waterways and threatening the Great Lakes. Gov. Pat Quinn announced an agreement Tuesday between a Chinese ...

Midwestern states are spending millions every year to prevent a giant, goggle-eyed fish from invading rivers and lakes. But the Asian carp has firmly established a home in the Mississippi River basin, ...

Scientist Jim Lamer holds an invasive silver carp on the Illinois River. (Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco/WNIJ-Northern Public Radio) Buy Photo Midwestern states are ...

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