An underwater electric barrier between the Illinois River and Great Lakes will be switched on Wednesday in hopes of preventing the spread of invasive species between the two basins — in parti… ...

Due to the complexity of designing a safe and effective, one-of-a-kind underwater electric fish barrier for a reservoir, the project is still in the initial design phase.

SCOTTVILLE -- Attempting to stop sea lamprey with an electric barrier has become a thing of the past on the Pere Marquette River, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials. The federal ...

Federal officials promised to improve two crucial weapons in the fight to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes: an electric fish barrier near Chicago and an early-warning system that ...

Higher electric power levels might be needed to immobilize small Asian carp about 2 to 3 inches long, they said. The smaller fish are not believed to be close to the barriers, which are near Lockport.

WBEZ’s Gabriel Spitzer visited the electric barriers there. In this report he explains how engineers are trying to hold the line against the fish.

Still, Peabody wasn't ready to believe that a positive sample necessarily meant the presence of fish. The general worried the DNA might have gotten past the barrier some other way.

After the discovery of a round goby below the Neenah dam in 2015, the lock was closed in an effort to keep the invasive fish out of Lake Winnebago.

State officials are repairing an electric fish barrier in Lost Island Lake, which is near Ruthven in northwest Iowa. Mike Hawkins, a fisheries biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is considering an electric fish barrier at Lock and Dam No. 1 in Minneapolis to keep Asian carp away from recreational waters upriver.