Study Outlines Options for Agencies to Slow Asian Carp Invasion

Last fall, a commercial angler made a troubling discovery: a bighead carp, netted in Lake Pepin, less than 100 miles from Minneapolis on the Mississippi River.

A short time later, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources commissioned a study to identify ways to slow or stop the advance of non-native Asian carp