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The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and partner agencies under the leadership of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee have found no Asian carp in the first week of searching for the invasive fish in the Chicago Area Waterway System.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and partner agencies under the leadership of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee will conduct a two-week intensive sampling effort in the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River following the recent detection of Asian carp environmental DNA in that area.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pleased to announce the first black carp identification video that teaches viewers how to identify black carp using grass carp as a point of comparison.

Results are in for the first round of environmental DNA testing for invasive bighead and silver carp in tributaries of Lake Michigan. None of the 336 water samples collected in the Kalamazoo River, Spring Lake and Lake Macatawa tested positive for the genetic material of invasive carp.

The updated Action Plan includes aggressive new prevention and control efforts, including expanded Asian carp population reduction along established fronts, large-scale field trials of potential barriers and deterrent technologies, and actions to address black and grass carp threats.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources has launched the Market Value Grant Program offering up to $8,000 to fish processors and product makers to defray costs of business travel and trade show attendance to market their Asian carp products.

In June 2018, a sampling crew from The University of Toledo collaborating with the U.S. Geological Survey sampled the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio, for early life stages of grass carp. During processing of samples in January 2019, six larval grass carp were identified. A genetic analysis conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey recently confirmed that these newly hatched fish are grass carp.

A juvenile black carp has been discovered in Ballard County, according to the Fisheries Division of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. The fish, a member of the invasive Asian carp species, came from Gar Creek near the Ohio River.

In an effort to ensure only sterile grass carp are available for purchase by the public in Ohio, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife purchased and tested 1,200 grass carp from 16 different dealers over a two-year period.