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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You know the Show Boat refrain: "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly..." Well, the Asian Carp certainly isn't humming along. Check out one of the many videos that show hundreds of these frenzied fish ...

Hooking consumers on Asian carp, a white, light-tasting fish, has long been the goal of state officials seeking to empty the invasive species from rivers and lakes. Kentucky State University ...