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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… Read More

Nine Projects Receive Marine Highway Grants A crane lifts a container into a barge at the Paducah Riverport. A recent marine highways grant the port received is for the purchase or lease of equipment as an initial step toward beginning regularly scheduled container on barge service between Paducah and Baton Rouge, La. (Photo courtesy of Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority)

A crane lifts a container into a barge at the Paducah Riverport. A recent marine highways grant the port received is for the purchase or lease of equipment as an initial step toward beginning regularly scheduled container on barge service between Paducah and Baton Rouge, La. (Photo courtesy of Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority)

Nine Projects Receive Marine Highway Grants

January 10, 2020

New Paducah–Baton Rouge Project To Receive $480,000 Grant money from the Maritime Administration’s America’s Marine Highway Program will help fund more than $7.5 million for nine projects, including one… Read More

CG: Operator Falling Asleep Caused Yacht Club Allision

December 20, 2019

A Coast Guard investigation has determined a “mate on-watch” falling asleep at the controls caused a tow to hit a Cincinnati-area floating restaurant and marina. The… Read More

Dorena-Hickman Ferry Reopens

November 27, 2019

The Dorena-Hickman Ferry, running between Dorena, Mo., and Hickman, Ky., resumed operations November 16 after replacing its rudder, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced. Tammy Hutchinson, executive director of… Read More

Nautical Handrail System Designed For Safety Dan Walsh of G&C Multi-Services quickly assembles the positioner on the AOI handrail system. (Photo by Clint Conway/G&C Multi-Services)

Dan Walsh of G&C Multi-Services quickly assembles the positioner on the AOI handrail system. (Photo by Clint Conway/G&C Multi-Services)

Nautical Handrail System Designed For Safety

November 19, 2019

G&C Multi-Services of Paduach, Ky., is marketing a nautical handrail system with one goal: to aid safety on the river. The company recently announced the patent-protected system,… Read More

Small Grocery Stays Afloat With Towboat Customers The Village Market & Cafe in Grand Rivers, Ky.

Small Grocery Stays Afloat With Towboat Customers

November 18, 2019

In 1938, J.L DeWeese Sr. opened J.L. DeWeese & Son Grocery in the quaint little village of Grand Rivers situated between the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers in Kentucky. 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… Read More

WJ Opens New Office In Paducah, Ky.

November 8, 2019

The Waterways Journal has opened a new office in Paducah, Ky. The company is leasing space from the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) at 129 Water St. The location is… Read More

Yager Launches Final Barge For LST Memorial Dock barge for LST 325 splashes into Ohio River. (Photo by Jason Koenig)

Yager Launches Final Barge For LST Memorial

November 1, 2019

Yager Marine has launched the second of two deck barges that will become a docking facility for the World War II amphibious vehicle LST 325. LST 325 is… Read More

Marathon Christens Three Towboats At Catlettsburg The mvs. Patoka, Mt. Vernon and Kenova are docked at the Marathon Petroleum facility at Catlettsburg, Ky., before their christenings on October 8. (Photo by Jim Ross)

The mvs. Patoka, Mt. Vernon and Kenova are docked at the Marathon Petroleum facility at Catlettsburg, Ky., before their christenings on October 8. (Photo by Jim Ross)

Marathon Christens Three Towboats At Catlettsburg

October 18, 2019

Marathon Petroleum Company officially welcomed three boats to its fleet October 8 with a christening ceremony at its Marine Transportation docks at Catlettsburg, Ky. The three boats—the… Read More