Nashville, Tennessee, reporter Travis Loller and Traverse City, Michigan, correspondent John Flesher teamed up to scoop national media by more than a week on a hunt for the invasive Asian carp in Kentucky. Loller learned of plans for the hunt and along with Flesher worked to tell the broader story of how efforts to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes and other important waterways was proving far more expensive than expected, teaming with visual colleagues to get images of the hunt ahead of a planned media event. https://bit.ly/2v4HujC
Tip leads to exclusive catch on invasive carp
Asian carp jump near the suction tube of a fish pump as workers from several natural resource agencies supervise the harvesting of the invasive fish from Kentucky Lake near Golden Pond, Ky., Feb. 17, 2020.
AP Photo / Mark Humphrey