The $1.2-billion Brandon Road Interbasin Project is being built in Joliet, Ill. to prevent Asian carp and other invasive ...

The silver carp's habit of exploding from the water by the dozens to evade predators or boats has earned it a lot of TV news time. All Asian carp belong to a family of more than 2,000 species ...

As Asian carp have stormed up the Illinois River in ... much too large for any native predator to feed on them. However, since the 1990s, invasive zebra and quagga mussels have devoured so much ...

Asian carp eat low on the food chain ... "When an invasive species is given new habitat, it is released from its normal predators, competitors and parasites," Stepien said.

Humans are the only predators capable of making a dent in ... fish that has proliferated since 1975 when some imported Asian carp escaped from their job nibbling algae from an Arkansas sewage ...

As a non-native species, the Asian carp lack natural predators in the Great Lakes region. This means that if they enter the ecosystem, their unchecked growth will devastate food chains as they ...

Only 40 miles separate voracious Asian carp from the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. To stop them, Illinois must reckon ...

A lock and dam project in Illinois to help prevent invasive Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan is moving forward.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Invasive Asian carp are inching their way closer to the Great Lakes. Now, one has been ...

Illinois River Asian Silver carp jump out of the water after being ... the rapidly growing numbers of Asian carp, a fish with few predators to population growth. A single female can produce ...

Native predator species provide a glimmer of hope as well. Bass and other large fish willingly feed on juvenile Asian carp, thus impacting the population. Pelicans and eagles do the same.

With no natural predators, the carp could overrun native commercial and sport fish and soon become the dominant species, scientists say. Scientists this year detected DNA of silver carp, an Asian ...