For the past decade, the number of new aquatic invasive species-infested waters in Minnesota has fluctuated anywhere from 87 in 2018 to 41 in 2024. This past year marked the lowest number of new bodies
The Environmental Protection Agency published a notice of a proposed settlement with the Illinois DNR concerning property at the heart of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project, which is designed to stop invasive carp from moving
After a team of commercial fishers spent the morning punching holes in the ice, feeding a seine through the holes, and using various sounds to drive fish toward the net, the Asian carp they hoped
During this year’s legislative session, the Minnesota DNR’s efforts will be focused more on the budget than on pushing policy, which had been a primary focus in previous sessions.
“We’ve done so much policy
Much of the world changed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are still living in its aftermath and will be for the foreseeable future. Decades ago, much of the Great Lakes fish populations changed
After the Legislature almost a year ago green-lit the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council-approved carp barrier at Lock and Dam 5 on the Mississippi River, the preparatory work continues behind the scenes.
Kelly Pennington, an
Name a fish in one of the Illinois river systems and Kevin Irons has studied it and – at least in the past two dozen or so years, shaken his head at it.
Invasive
DNR fisheries biologists are collecting live Christmas trees to be used as fish habitat in local lakes. The collected trees will be bundled together, weighted, and submerged at lakes, providing critical habitat for multiple fish
There are five species of invasive carp now entrenched in the Upper Midwest, though only the common carp and grass carp (an Asian carp) are found in Michigan.
Ironically, the taste of common carp,
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