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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 ...
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 ...
WATE Knoxville on MSN

KY increases incentives to tackle invasive carp issue

Officials say commercial fishers have more incentive to catch and remove invasive carp from Kentucky waters. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources says it has increased the commercial ...

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 ...
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 ...
Detroit News

Trump says he won’t fund invasive carp barrier unless Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker ‘asks.’ But the money has already been set aside

As tensions rise between Illinois politicians and President Donald Trump over his plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, the latter contrasted Democratic governors’ resistance to their desire ...
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 ...
News 8000

Minnesota DNR officials discover school of invasive carp gathering near La Crosse

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says it's found a school of invasive carp gathering in Pool 8 of the Mississippi River at the confluence of the Root River. The DNR ...
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 ...

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

Increasing the incentive to commercial fishers will help ensure we keep suppressing invasive carp numbers,” said Dave Dreves, director of the Fisheries Division for 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 from invasive carp. Now commercial fishers have more incentive to catch and r ...