Scientists are criticizing the Australian government for its $11 million plan to unleash herpes on its carp population. The plan could lead to “catastrophic ecosystem crashes” and “constitutes a ...

Australia doesn’t have the best history when it comes to invasive species. One such animal is the European carp, which has spread throughout much of Australia’s waterways. Now, in an unlikely alliance ...

Hello folks, on today's episode we're going to be fishing for carp. We'll be using a different set up to help with easier bite detection. Sometime when a carp bites, you'll really know it. Although ...

The Australian government recently announced an unusual initiative to eradicate a long-standing animal pest problem. To rid their streams and rivers of invasive European carp crowding out native ...

A coalition of conservationists, recreational fishers and farmers want Australia’s state and federal governments to get rid of European carp, or “Australia’s worst freshwater pest”, by releasing ...

Carp, a pest fish in Australia, will be facing an epidemic sometime around 2018, at least if the Australian government follows through with a newly announced plan. The nation's deputy prime minister ...

Officials in Australia are calling it “Carpageddon”, an ambitious proposal to rid the country’s longest river system—the Murray-Darling—of invasive common ...

FILE - In this June 13, 2012, file photo, Asian carp, jolted by an electric current from a research boat, jump from the Illinois River near Havana, Ill. Outgoing Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has ...

Australia is using the herpes virus in an effort to control wild carp populations. This is the first eradication ever undertaken using herpes. Carp are an invasive species in Australia, where they ...

Not content with telling Jonny Depp’s dogs to “bugger off,” Australia’s new Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has moved onto his next target … carp. Joyce announced during a robust speech to a rowdy ...