Officials issue $100 bounties for fishermen to catch harmful creatures: 'My hobby may pay for itself'

According to Crossroads Today, the expanded bounty program, now in 27 states, will pay fishers $100 for every invasive black ...
The Cool Down on MSN

Officials issue 15-cent-per-pound bounties for fishers to catch harmful creatures: 'We have a large population'

Kentucky wildlife officials are turning invasive carp into a cash crop for motivated anglers.

Battling Invasive Carp in the Tennessee River System -- New Incentives for 2026

Commercial harvest has been one of the most effective tools in suppressing carp populations. Partnering state and federal agencies are removing millions of pounds of invasive carp annually from the ...
WATE Knoxville on MSN

Fishermen have incentive on invasive carp

Commercial fishers now have more incentive to catch and remove invasive carp from Kentucky waters, as the Kentucky Department ...
Chicago Tribune

Feds say funding freed up for Great Lakes invasive carp project, though President Donald Trump and Gov. JB Pritzker still snipe at each other

President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Friday supporting an important Great Lakes project in Illinois to contain invasive carp, but the president still found a way to call out Gov. JB ...

Calling all commercial fishermen: You can get paid to remove invasive carp from these Kentucky lakes

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Commercial fishermen in Kentucky can earn some extra cash this year and improve the environment at the same ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Scientists try new way to limit invasive carp in Mississippi River: feeding them

Invasive carp are not yet common so far upriver, and the agencies hope to keep it that way. The floating feeders will dispense food four times a day, then commercial fishers will go out to the feeders ...
FOX 56 News on MSN

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife increases incentives to tackle invasive carp issue

The change aims to keep pressure on invasive populations of silver carp, bighead carp, black carp, and grass carp, which ...
Grand Forks Herald

Evidence of Asian carp found in Mississippi River north of Twin Cities

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota is kicking up its Asian carp fight after test results show the invasive fish that can out-eat native species could be upstream from the Twin Cities. The discovery opens the ...
WNKY

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife discusses carp incentive increase

Federal dollars are coming to Kentucky, and the funds will help protect native fish and wildlife across the state. Kentucky ...
WPSD Local 6

KDFWR targets invasive carp removal with incentive increase

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is strengthening efforts to curb invasive carp populations in Kentucky ...
WPSD Local 6

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife to increase incentive for invasive carp removal

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources continues its effort to protect western Kentucky's native fisheries ...