Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you see it, kill it. An invasive fish species is harming the Mississippi ecosystem, and you can help stop it. Northern ...

Silver carp jump in the Fox River in Illinois. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee) Credit: Ryan Hagerty / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- While scientists have been battling to keep a ravenous, invasive fish species out of the Great Lakes, some worry that spring floods along the Mississippi River may be spreading the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suggests eating invasive species to help protect native animals and ecosystems. Invasive species can have a significant economic impact, costing the U.S. billions of ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources confirmed the capture of a bighead carp and two silver carp within the past several weeks. The bighead carp was captured at the Xcel Energy ...

Invasive carp are not yet common so far upriver, and the agencies hope to keep it that way. The floating feeders will dispense food four times a day, then commercial fishers will go out to the feeders ...

More than 300 invasive carp were pulled from the Mississippi River near Trempealeau, Wis., in late November, the largest single capture of the nuisance fish in Wisconsin and Minnesota waters to date.

Northern snakeheads are an invasive fish species in Mississippi that threaten the ecosystem. The public is encouraged to kill or freeze northern snakeheads to help control their population. Some ...

“If you can create a successful market around the fish, then the markets can be a tool to manage them,” says Ben Meadows, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama Birmingham.