Lena Sawyers, a biologist at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, holds a flathead catfish captured during an electrofishing demonstration on the Potomac River on Sept. 10. (Photo by ...
Fisheries biologists regularly count trout or Arctic grayling in Montana’s streams by introducing an electrical field to stun and capture the fish. When trout encounter the electrical field their ...
Have you ever wondered how to catch a bunch of fish fast? Well, authorities in Kentucky used an electricity jolt to get an invasive fish species out of the water. The department of Fish and Wildlife ...
GEORGIA, USA — Central Georgia waters are getting a jolt in the name of conservation. Each spring, biologists with Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) head out with boats and electrodes to ...
On Thursday morning, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries biologists Chris Clancy, Adam Petersen and Leslie Nyce conducted an electrofishing survey on a two-mile stretch of the Bitterroot north ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. How can electricity help scientists study fish? Blue catfish are an invasive species in Chesapeake Bay, in part due to their voracious appetites ...