Groupers are beginning to see lionfish as food

Even when it's in a diver's bag.

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Washington battling major threat to Columbia salmon

Sea lions, cormorants, terns.....now you can add northern pike to the list.

Washington is in a running battle with a sharp-toothed, voracious, predatory alien invader, the northern pike.

The biggest fear is that the prolific breeders might make it down river from Box Canyon Reservoir and into the Columbia River.

LINK (via: The Statesman Journal)

Asian carp advance to the Great Lakes has stalled

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' commanding officer told a congressional subcommittee that Asian carp, whose arrival in the Great Lakes could threaten native sport fish, hasn't moved any farther toward the ecosystem since 2006 and remains about 55 miles away.

LINK (via: Cleveland.com)

Fish Arrow Cam

An invasive Asian carp takes a hit.

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The Worst Fish in America: Asian Carpocalypse

VICE News correspondent Thomas Morton investigates Asian carp.

VICE News traveled across Illinois to see how people are dealing with the Asian carp invasion, visiting the Redneck Fishing Tournament — where the sole mission is to catch as many carp as possible — touring a processing plant trying to monetize the fish, and then heading to Chicago, where we learned that Asian carp are a symptom of a much larger issue.

Are Montana's invasive fish in for a shock?

A new paper from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Montana State University, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and the U.S. Geological Survey looks at the feasibility of electrofishing to selectively remove invasive trout species from Montana streams as an alternative to using fish toxicants known as piscicides that effect all gill-breathing organisms.

LINK (via: PHYS.ORG)