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Asian Carp Eradication Funding Restored In Final Kentucky Budget

May 18, 2020

Kentucky’s final budget restored $5.5 million in boat registration funding to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to continue the state’s Asian carp eradication efforts for another year. Read More

Asian Carp Fishing Method Being Tested In Kentucky Silver carp, a variety of Asian carp, are hauled in a seine at Kentucky Lake’s Pisgah Bay, part of an experimental test of the haul seining or beach seining method. (Photo courtesy of Robbins Fishery)

Silver carp, a variety of Asian carp, are hauled in a seine at Kentucky Lake’s Pisgah Bay, part of an experimental test of the haul seining or beach seining method. (Photo courtesy of Robbins Fishery)

Asian Carp Fishing Method Being Tested In Kentucky

April 19, 2020

A commercial fisherman harvested close to 60,000 pounds of Asian carp from one bay in 48 hours as part of a fishing method being tested in Kentucky for the first… Read More

Coronavirus Delays Chinese Investors’ Visit To Kentucky Fisheries Park

March 21, 2020

The spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in China is not having an effect on Kentucky’s exports of Asian carp, but it is preventing Chinese investors from visiting a fisheries… Read More

Kentucky Lake Research Project Nets Asian Carp An Asian carp pulled out of Kentucky Lake. (Photo courtesy of Lee McClellan, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources)

An Asian carp pulled out of Kentucky Lake. (Photo courtesy of Lee McClellan, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources)

Kentucky Lake Research Project Nets Asian Carp

February 21, 2020

An experimental netting and fish pumping method has resulted in the harvest of thousands of pounds of Asian carp in two of Kentucky Lake’s bays this month. State, federal and… Read More

Asian Carp Seminar Presents Info On Eradication Efforts

Silver carp jump on the Cumberland River just below Barkley Dam during a Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources electrofishing expedition in July 2019. Electrofishing typically stuns fish for a few seconds before they regain mobility and swim away, but silver carp are known to jump from the water when startled by the electrical current. The electrofishing is one of a variety of ways KDFWR is trying to remove the invasive carp that can pose dangers for people and equipment.

Asian Carp Seminar Presents Info On Eradication Efforts

January 24, 2020

The Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) has increased staff and is employing innovative new methods to try to reduce the number of Asian carp already in the… Read More

Study: Carp Have Caused Sport Fish Decline

November 29, 2019

A new study based on almost 20 years of fish-sampling data gathered by the Corps of Engineers in the Mississippi River says that the spread of Asian carp has resulted… Read More

Ceremony Officially Activates ‘Fish Fence’ At Barkley Lock Diagonal line of bubbles across lock chamber shows the location of the Bio-Acoustic Fish Fence at Barkley Lock. (Photo by Shelley Byrne)

Diagonal line of bubbles across lock chamber shows the location of the Bio-Acoustic Fish Fence at Barkley Lock. (Photo by Shelley Byrne)

Ceremony Officially Activates ‘Fish Fence’ At Barkley Lock

November 15, 2019

With the push of a button, a low hum sounded, and bubbles rose to the surface in a line crossing the width of Barkley Dam’s lock approach, from the main… Read More

Bio-Accoustic Fish Fence Being Developed At Barkley Lock

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist; Nathan Rister, fisheries technician; and Matt Combs, fisheries biologist; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, demonstrate electrofishing for Asian Carp on the Cumberland River next to Barkley Dam in Grand Rivers, Ky., July 30, 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, U.S. Geological Survey and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency are collaborating on the deployment of a bio-acoustic fish fence on the downstream side of Barkley Lock as part of a test of this sound deterrent to reduce the use of the locks by Asian Carp. (Corps of Engineers photo by Leon Roberts)

Bio-Accoustic Fish Fence Being Developed At Barkley Lock

August 19, 2019

Story and Photos Courtesy of Nashville Engineer District An experimental project designed to deter Asian carp from entering Lake Barkley is underway. Officials addressed stakeholders and media recently on the… Read More

Corps Sends Brandon Road Plan To Congress Brandon Road Lock (photo by John Shoulberg)

Corps Sends Brandon Road Plan To Congress

May 31, 2019

On May 24, the Rock Island Engineer District announced that a $779 million plan at Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River to prevent the spread of… Read More

Brandon Road Boondoggle Goes To Congress WJ Editorial

Brandon Road Boondoggle Goes To Congress

May 31, 2019

As expected, Corps commanding general Todd Semonite signed the Chief’s Report on the Brandon Road Recommended Plan for an array of carp-fighting measures and sent the proposal to Congress. As… Read More