A small fleet made its way up the Illinois River, its crew armed with landing nets and football helmets as if to fend off an invasion. Minutes after launching from the riverbank in the village of Bath ...

As tensions rise between Illinois politicians and President Donald Trump over his plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, the latter contrasted Democratic governors’ resistance to their desire ...

The new carp plan calls for increased research and monitoring with more commercial netting and potential barriers to slow the invaders' spread. Silver carp jump in the Illinois River when spooked by a ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found more efficient ways to construct a barrier near Chicago to keep invasive carp in the Mississippi River system out of the Great Lakes. But the cost is nearly 13 ...

I am wondering if you could tell me why on Le Ray Township Road 332/610th Avenue by LawnCrafters there is a creek with an underwater electric barrier? It appears to be similar to the electric barrier ...

As you read this, silver carp — the invasive fish that can obliterate game species such as walleyes, and whose missile-like acrobatics have smacked boaters in the face from Iowa to Kentucky — are ...

WILLMAR — We may have no more than a five-to-10 year window to act if we are to stop invasive carp from moving upstream in the Mississippi River and establishing reproducing populations in Minnesota ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Inflation has hit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The USACE has announced the cost for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project, which would keep invasive carp out of the ...

Asian carp are large, voracious, and invasive. After their introduction to the United States during the early 1970s to ...

ST. PAUL -- State legislators are moving ahead with plans to build an electric barrier in the Mississippi River to stop the spread of Asian carp. A bill instructing the Minnesota Department of Natural ...

ST. PAUL -- Three options appear viable to help stop the advance of Asian carp into Minnesota, but after years of talk disputes remain about how to best halt the invasion. Legislators on the House ...

The $1.1 billion barrier being designed for the Brandon Road Lock and Dam in Joliet Township would combine noise, bubbling water and electric shock to keep Asian carp from moving into the Great Lakes.