In September 2025, a rumor circulated online that migrants in the U.K. were eating swans and carp from the country's parks, lakes and rivers. When Ferrari asked whether the cats and dogs rumor was ...

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 ...

A group of Arkansas Game & Fish Commission invasive carp specialists patrol the Cache River in eastern Arkansas. Credit: Lucas Dufalla / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Since their accidental introduction ...

Midwestern states are spending millions every year to prevent a giant, goggle-eyed fish from invading rivers and lakes. But the Asian carp has firmly established a home in the Mississippi River basin, ...

“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.