CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- An expensive fish kill that netted just one Asian carp in a Chicago ship canal was worth it to protect Lake Michigan from the invasive fish, officials said.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Invasive Asian carp pose a dire threat to the Great Lakes' ecosystem but may not be able to breed in open lake waters, a U.S. expert on the fish said.
LONDON, Ontario, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Canadian environmental officials are concerned invasive Asian carp could be poised to reach the Great Lakes because control measures don't seem to be working.
CHICAGO, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Asian carp may have passed through an electric barrier intended to keep the invasive species out of Lake Michigan, new findings suggest.
CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A Great Lakes official says invasive Asian carp have moved to within 5 miles of a Chicago barrier intended to keep the species out of Lake Michigan.
CHICAGO, June 20 (UPI) -- Two invasive Asian carp species haven't traveled any closer to the susceptible Lake Michigan, an annual survey by several U.S. federal agencies indicates
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., is praising the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for adding silver carp to its list of injurious species.
BATH, Ill., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A remote Illinois town will repeat its Redneck Fishing Derby in an effort to get rid of invasive Asian carp that jump into boats, covering people with slime.
CHICAGO, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Illinois state biologists have identified a dead fish from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal as a silver carp, a species of invasive Asian carp.
CHICAGO, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Members of a federal task force announced funding for a $9.1 million permanent electrified barrier on a waterway near Chicago to halt voracious Asian carp.