There may come a day on the Illinois River when a fish swims up a chute, slides through a scanner, and, after being recognized as a feared silver carp, is sorted and removed, eventually ending up in a ...

Many hoses connect to the side of the steeppass fish-sorting system at the Emiquon Preserve near Lewistown on May 17, 2021. Nora Hargett, left, and Stephanie Schmidt, graduate students from the ...

TRAVERSE CITY — A 20 year long restoration effort on the Boardman-Ottaway River in Traverse City is nearing completion, but a legal roadblock has delayed the effort. The Boardman once had four dams, ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- Construction began this week on a project to restore the ecosystem - positively impacting at least 30 species - of a Northern Michigan river and upgrade a public park. The most ...

Sort fish, harvest wild rice, and what a drifting buoy revealed about winter on the lakes. A project on a Michigan river uses an obstacle course to keep undesirable fish away. Take a canoe out onto ...

A $2.4 million fish-sorting weir was up and running this week on the Kalama River. The idea is to prevent hatchery fish from mingling with what biologists consider “wild” fish. With the new structure, ...

More than 100 sea lamprey cling to a tank at the fish-sorting facility at Milford Dam. As of Monday, more than 5,000 lamprey had been counted at the dam. Credit: Maine Department of Marine Resources ...