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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

But the once-reviled predator is now being seen as a valuable fish in its own right, and as a potential weapon against a more threatening intruder: the invasive Asian carp, which have swum almost ...

One of the most reviled invasive fish in North America has been unexpectedly found in the upper Mississippi River, raising concern about its spread, federal scientists announced Tuesday.

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.

Asian carp have overtaken many lakes and rivers in the Mississippi River drainage area. A recent Associated Press article noted that alligator gar is the only natural predator able to eat big ...

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