According to a January report from Patricia Herman, in the January 24 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Field notes, several species of Asian, silver and bighead carp are dying on the Osage River. Fish and Wildlife officials are not sure why:
The report is filed at http://www.fws.gov/fieldnotes/regmap.cfm?arskey=33499. The text follows:
Missouri residents utilize their water [...]

While the Missouri legislature thinks about mountain lion legislation and how many Conservation commissioners we really need, our near neighbor, the Illinois legislature, is serving up its own sort of wildlife management proposals.
In a proposal called “Double Earn a Buck” proposes that a hunter would have to turn in two filled antlerless deer tags [...]

If you’ve ever been trolling behind a wing dike on the Missouri or down the Mississippi and had a big silver fish jump like it is going to slam dunk the boat, you know what a problem silver and bighead (Asian) carp can be. Two stories: one good, one possibly very bad, appeared this morning.
On [...]