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 ...

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 ...

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.: ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Columbia, Mo. — On a mucky riverbank, perhaps ...

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 ...