This Department continues to take a leadership role to compel states and the federal government to reach a level of effort and funding that will make the 2007 National Invasive Carp Plan viable and ultimately make the control of invasive carp throughout the Mississippi River basin a reality. In 2013, KDFWR held the first ever commercial fishing tournament (Carp Madness 2013) in Kentucky and Barkley lakes. Since that tournament, KDFWR has received many requests for information concerning establishing fish processing plants that would make products from invasive carp. By 2015, three processors had been established, and their facilities have led to the harvest of over 1.2 million pounds of invasive carp in 2015 over 800,000 pounds from Kentucky and Barkley lakes.
