GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The next time you reach into your minnow bucket to thread a shiner into a hook, take a second look. Are you holding a juvenile Asian carp? The Michigan DNR is asking anglers to ...

They wouldn’t be among the prettiest fish. In fact, some folks would say common carp are just plain ugly. These giant members of the minnow family were native to Europe and Asia, and were ...

Multiple species of invasive Asian carp could wreck the Great Lakes. Trump memorandum commits federal government to action, urges states to move ahead.

Golden shiners, a shimmering live bait favored by winter walleye anglers, are at the center of an escalating policy dispute between bait shops barred from importing the minnows and fisheries ...

Goforth tested electrical fields on three model species - zebrafish, goldfish and fathead minnows - which are in the same family as Asian carp and have embryos that are similar in size. He found that ...

working out commercial fishing deals to havest the fish and sell their meat to China and other Asian countries and even checking whether bait shops are unknowingly spreading the fish by selling Asian ...

Fishermen catch live bait constantly using nets and minnow traps. Very small silver carp look like many other baitfish to the untrained eye. All it will take is one uninformed fisherman putting a ...

The common carp, found in many waterways, was introduced to the U.S. in the late 19th century by the U.S. Fish Commission. Spencer Fullerton Baird, the commissioner, believed carp would supplement ...

John Young helps stock local lakes and ponds. "Our main fish is channel catfish, and then we have largemouth bass, bluegill, crappie, carp, minnows, goldfish," he said. To learn more about the ...

a few Asian carp minnows could have been unintentionally mixed in with the stocking," McCloud said. Bait buckets and Asian cultural releases also have been cited as sources of inland urban Asian ...