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Sept. 27, 2022Kansas City, Mo. |  By: Jeremy Werner

MDC and US Fish remove invasive carp

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Department of Conservation is touting one of its projects from earlier this month.

Back on Sept. 12-16, the MDC and U.S. Fish and Wildlife services used nets and electrofishing to remove almost 25,000 pounds of invasive carp on the lower Grand River, which feeds into the Missouri River.

According to a press release, the project improved the river habitat for native fish and provided information for how commercial operations might be used in the future to reduce invasive carp.

A commercial fishing business will market the fish caught during this operation. For more information about invasive carp, visit short.mdc.mo.gov/4Tr.