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 ...

, known as Asian carp, feed on plankton which is the base of the aquatic food chain. Not to mention, these carp have mad hops. Yes, they have the tendency to jump into moving boats. Try to imagine a ...

If you can't beat them, eat them.That's Mississippi's approach to invasive Asian carp, trying to turn the fish into a job-creator by catching them, slaughtering them and exporting them to China.Moon ...

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.: ...

Bryce Caron grew up catching carp while fishing in Tennessee. He’d throw them back, he says: they were bottom-feeders with an “overgrown catfish kind of flavor.” But there are several different kinds ...

You might find this hard to believe, but the common carp was imported to the United States in 1879 as a food fish. If that is so, then how did this copper clad over sized minnow get its reputation as ...

Asian carp may be a plankton-gobbling nuisance threatening the Great Lakes, but Illinois officials on Thursday expressed their hope to change that perception one bite at a time. The Illinois ...

CHICAGO -- Asian carp may be a plankton-gobbling nuisance threatening the Great Lakes, but Illinois officials on Thursday expressed their hope to change that perception one bite at a time. 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 ...

JEROME • Finally, Idaho anglers are making lemonade from lemons. That is, from common carp — the big, fast-growing nuisance fish whose population exploded in the Snake River and southern Idaho’s big ...