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No bighead or silver carp captured during 2024 Seasonal Intensive Monitoring
November 5, 2024
No bighead or silver carp were captured or observed in the Chicago Area Waterway System during the Fall Seasonal Intensive Monitoring effort involving two weeks of intensive sampling in early October 2024.These results are similar to those of the Spring Seasonal Intensive Monitoring effort in May 2024, when no bighead or silver carp were found but two grass carp were captured and removed.
Dead invasive silver carp removed from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
August 27, 2024
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee today announced the removal of a dead invasive silver carp from the Lockport Pool below the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers electric dispersal barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
An overview graphic showing details of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project. Photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District
Army Corps, Illinois, and Michigan sign agreement to move Brandon Road Interbasin Project forward and unlock Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for construction
July 1, 2024
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, and the states of Illinois and Michigan signed a project partnership agreement for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project, moving the project forward into construction phase.
More than $47 million for 45 projects announced for the ongoing battle against invasive carp in the Great Lakes basin
April 26, 2024
To support the ongoing battle to reduce the destructiveness of invasive carp and the threats they pose to the Great Lakes, the Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee today announced the release of its annual Invasive Carp Action Plan for 2024
Illinois Department of Natural Resources invasive carp removal effort on the Upper Illinois River.
IDNR concludes record-breaking invasive carp removal effort on Upper Illinois River
December 12, 2023
Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists, with support from contracted commercial fishers and biologists from the Illinois River Biological Station, wrapped up a 10-day intensive harvest operation in the Starved Rock pool of the Illinois River, resulting in the removal of an astonishing 750,000 pounds of silver carp between Nov. 27 and Dec. 6.
An Illinois Department of Natural Resources-contracted fishing crew sets gill nets in the Chicago River to sample for invasive carp. Photo by Claire Snyder/Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
No invasive carp found during intensive monitoring in Chicago Area Waterway System
November 29, 2023
No bighead, silver, or grass carp were captured or observed in the Chicago Area Waterway System after two weeks of rigorous sampling were conducted in October 2023 during the annual Fall Seasonal Intensive Monitoring event.
Read about the annual Fall Seasonal Intensive Monitoring event »
The Underwater Acoustic Deterrent System being installed in the downstream lock approach channel of Mississippi River Lock 19, Keokuk, Iowa, in February 2021. Photograph by Mark Cornish/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Interim reports released for two experimental invasive carp deterrent studies
October 10, 2023
Interim project updates for the BioAcoustic Fish Fence at Barkley Lock and Dam in Kentucky and the Underwater Acoustic Deterrent System at Lock No. 19 on the Mississippi River have been released as Open File Reports that provide information from the first two years of operation and evaluation for each study.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist prepares water samples in a mobile lab for transport to the Whiteny Genetics Laboratory in Onalaska, Wisconsin. Photo by Monica Blaser/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
No silver carp eDNA in new St. Joseph River samples
September 28, 2023
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources today announced that no silver carp environmental DNA was found in a Sept. 6 resampling of the St. Joseph River.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist collects water samples for eDNA testing. Photo by Monica Blaser/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Silver carp eDNA detected in one location on the St. Joseph River in Michigan
September 7, 2023
Routine environmental DNA, known as eDNA, surveillance for invasive bighead and silver carp, conducted annually by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, turned up a single positive sample in the St. Joseph River near the St. Joseph/Benton Harbor area.
One grass carp was removed from Lake Calumet during seasonal intensive monitoring sampling
No bighead or silver carp found during spring seasonal intensive monitoring
July 25, 2023
No bighead carp or silver carp were captured or observed in the Chicago Area Waterway System during two weeks of rigorous sampling conducted in May 2023 during the annual Spring Seasonal Intensive Monitoring event.
A silver carp held by a biologist.
Analysis Complete of Silver Carp Captured in Lake Calumet
May 16, 2023
Laboratory analysis of a silver carp collected this past August in Lake Calumet within the Chicago Area Waterway System found that the fish was an adult that originated in the Illinois River watershed.
Read about the analysis of the silver carp collected in Lake Calumet »