Ben Stahlschmidt, foreground, a fish biologist with the US Geological Survey, carries off a sampling of bighead carp on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, as fellow biologists Anne Herndon and Curt Byrd collect ...
ALTON — Invasive black carp are now naturally reproducing and living to adulthood in the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, according to a U.S. Geological Survey. Black carp, which can grow quickly and ...
Invasive carp are not yet common so far upriver, and the agencies hope to keep it that way. The floating feeders will dispense food four times a day, then commercial fishers will go out to the feeders ...