Tag: US Fish and Wildlife

Sustainable Dining and Commercial Fishing: The answer to invasive Asian Carp?

Coastal News
Environment
Fishing

1/30/2024 - By Carli Stewart. A professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Mark Morgan, has spent over a decade researching Asian carp, an invasive species to the United States. Also known as silver carp, the fish was introduced to the U.S. in the 1970s to help with water purification in catfish ponds.… SEE MORE

Carp
Mississippi River
US Fish and Wildlife

Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push

Coastal News

1/20/2024 - By Todd Richmond Over the last five years, agencies such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have employed a new seek-and-destroy strategy that uses turncoat carp to lead them to the fish’s hotspot hideouts. Agency workers turn carp into double agents by capturing… SEE MORE

Aquaculture
invasive species
US Fish and Wildlife

Tag: US Fish and Wildlife

Sustainable Dining and Commercial Fishing: The answer to invasive Asian Carp?

Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push

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