Americans can be picky about their fish, and if you ask a typical seafood lover if you can eat carp, you might get a puzzled look in return. This isn’t because carp aren’t edible. They ...

Carp eat snails that cling to aquatic plants and sucking up small mussels and clams. The problem, however, is that these can be tough foods to get on your hook.

If you're planning to eat your Lake Huron catch, you need to know which species are the safest. Check out Michigan's Eat Safe ...

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 ...

Bighead carp eat species of zooplankton and silver carp consume phytoplankton, meaning that they compete with many native fish for resources, and established populations of the invaders can ...

With all the phytoplankton going to satiate silver carp bellies, less goes to the other plankton-eating fish. Silver carp particularly represent a huge threat to the fisheries in the Great Lakes.

Illinois Tried to Bait Restaurants With Carp But Customers Won’t Bite. Copi are an existential threat to Lake Michigan fisheries, but despite Illinois’s promotional campaign, it’s a ...

Carp, introduced to Missouri from Asia in the late 1800s, pose a severe threat to aquatic ecosystems throughout the state and nation, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation.The fish ...

Walleye could feed on native nongame fish like redside shiners, plus crawfish, which are freshwater crustaceans, in Lake ...

On average, each carp can eat two pounds of vegetation a day. But that’s just a tiny fraction of the rapidly growing weeds in the lake. “The biomass we’ve seen grow in Devil’s Lake, ...

Asian carp, four different species originating from Asia, are widespread in the Mississippi River and surrounding streams. The fish – grass carp, black carp, bighead carp and silver carp ...

With all the phytoplankton going to satiate silver carp bellies, less goes to the other plankton-eating fish. Silver carp particularly represent a huge threat to the fisheries in the Great Lakes.