Asian carp arrived in Detroit. No, it didn’t invade through the Great Lakes into our local waterways, as some scientists fear it will in the next 10 years. Instead, it landed via shipping truck on my ...

A wholesale fish dealer from Platteville has been convicted of illegally selling invasive carp in Wisconsin. Ping Li, co-owner and sole operator of Li Fish Farm, LLC, was convicted in Grant and Dane ...

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(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Standing on a windy bridge over the Des Plaines River in Joliet, Illinois, Scott Whitney shows off a diagram of what he calls the gauntlet. Pictured is a half-mile-long ...

You’re in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. Ugh, you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River? Here’s the catch: They’re the same thing ...

A Tennessee angler caught the "fish of a lifetime" recently when he managed to reel in a rare bighead carp with an assumed rare genetic condition. Victor Siwik of Reagan, Tennessee, was on a fishing ...

They wouldn’t be among the prettiest fish. In fact, some folks would say common carp are just plain ugly. These giant members of the minnow family were native to Europe and Asia, and were introduced ...

DETROIT – Care for a plate of slimehead? How about some orange roughy? It's the same fish, but one sounds much more palatable than the other. The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service gave the ...