TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — You’re in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. Ugh, you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River? Here’s the ...

Bryce Caron grew up catching carp while fishing in Tennessee. He’d throw them back, he says: they were bottom-feeders with an “overgrown catfish kind of flavor.” But there are several different kinds ...

Carp, gar, bowfin, drum and a few other species are considered rough fish. Don’t mistake these species as “trash fish.” As some mistakenly do. These fish are fun to catch on a rod and reel, and offer ...

During the 1800s, in an effort to enjoy the table fare from their native countries, immigrants opted to import carp to America and introduce it to water habitats here. Their intentions were good, as ...

You might find this hard to believe, but the common carp was imported to the United States in 1879 as a food fish. If that is so, then how did this copper clad over sized minnow get its reputation as ...

JEROME • Finally, Idaho anglers are making lemonade from lemons. That is, from common carp — the big, fast-growing nuisance fish whose population exploded in the Snake River and southern Idaho’s big ...