, known as Asian carp, feed on plankton which is the base of the aquatic food chain. Not to mention, these carp have mad hops. Yes, they have the tendency to jump into moving boats. Try to imagine a ...

LASALLE, Ill. (CBS)-- Workers along the Illinois River have found a new use for the invasive Asian carp. As WBBM Newsradio's Lisa Fielding reports, the hope is to reduce the population of Asian carp ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — 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 ...

A recent discussion about Asian carp as a food source has generated some concerns about the level of contamination in their fillets, and thus, whether or not they are safe to eat. Several Indiana ...

Bryce Caron grew up catching carp while fishing in Tennessee. He’d throw them back, he says: they were bottom-feeders with an “overgrown catfish kind of flavor.” But there are several different kinds ...

The idea of eating Asian carp to slow its predicted incursion into the Great Lakes has been bandied about with varying degrees of seriousness for a few years now. The carp are a hard sell in the U.S.: ...

Researchers at the Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey have found that overall, concentrations of arsenic, selenium, and mercury in bighead and silver carp from the lower ...