Miller City, Ill. — When Matt O’Hara, DNR’s Asian carp project leader, learned invasive black carp were being caught in Alexander County’s Horseshoe Lake, he mobilized a multi-faceted reconnaissance and intervention force. DNR fisheries biologists, members of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and commercial fishermen descended on Alexander County in an effort to capture […]
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