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… ...

An underwater electric fish barrier has only been done once in the history of USACE but never in a reservoir. So, the team of engineering and scientific specialists began designing the innovative ...

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.

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 ...

The electric barrier at Menasha would be the first in Wisconsin. According to plan, FRNSA would build a 100-foot-long, 36-foot-wide concrete channel on the downstream end of the Menasha lock.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP)-- Federal officials promised Friday to improve two crucial weapons in the fight to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes: an electric fish barrier near Chicago ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fired up a new electric fish barrier Thursday on a Chicago-area waterway linking the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds, the latest bid to protect the ...

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. Subscribe to Eight Forty-Eight ...

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 ...

An electric barrier near Chicago designed to prevent Asian carp and other species from migrating between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River system had a 13-minute power outage this week, ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Federal officials promised Friday to improve two crucial weapons in the fight to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes: an electric fish barrier near Chicago ...