Americans can be picky about their fish, and if you ask a typical seafood lover if you can eat carp, you might get a puzzled look in return. This isn’t because carp aren’t edible. They definitely are, ...

Silver carp jump in the Fox River in Illinois. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee) Midwestern states are spending millions every year to ...

Sandwiched in a plush brioche bun slathered with spicy mayo and topped with the familiar lettuce, tomato and onion, the flavorful burger patty is heavy on the oregano, garlic and black pepper, and pan ...

EAST PEORIA — Abundant, local, cheap and a great source of protein and other essential nutrients, carp have only one problem: Americans have traditionally shied away from eating it, until now. On ...

On most Saturday afternoons, you can find Dirk Fucik leading a cooking demo at his Lincoln Park shop, Dirk’s Seafood and Gourmet. Sometimes he offers salmon samples. Others, it’s cod. Today, he’s ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — 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: ...

On Tuesday, the Virginia Department of Health issued a fish advisory that stretches from the head of the James near Iron Gate to Balcony Falls Dam downstream of Glasgow, near the Maury River. People ...

Scientist Jim Lamer holds an invasive silver carp on the Illinois River. (Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco/WNIJ-Northern Public Radio) Buy Photo Midwestern states are ...

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MISSOURI, USA — An "environmental ticking timebomb" threatens the Mississippi River and Missouri's waterways. A new kids' book offers a potentially simple and effective solution. Carp were introduced ...

More than 500 grass-eating carp were released into a Louisiana lake on Thursday to help gobble up vegetation taking over the water, Baton Rouge parks and recreation officials said. The combination of ...