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Dr. Jackson Gross Participating in Quagga Mussel Meeting

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Dr. Jackson Gross has extensive experience and knowledge in dealing with nonindigenous Quagga mussels. He will present his research to the Interagency Quagga Mussel Group, lead by the National Park Service/Great Basin Institute, he is participating in a joint meeting with Lower Colorado River Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force. Quagga mussels are an invasive aquatic species that grows to about an inch in diameter. They reproduce quickly and in large numbers. They are... Read More →

Fish Barrier featured in MUSKIE Magazine

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Smith-Root’s most recent electrical barrier installation, Lower Gar Lake, was featured in the March/April issue of MUSKIE Magazine, the official publication of Muskies Inc. The impetus for this installation was the upstream migration of invasive carp but had the ancillary benefit of preventing the downstream migration of native muskies. According to the article, muskies have displayed sensitivity to the DC electrical fields present in electrical barriers and, based on... Read More →

Lower Gar Lake Fish Barrier Commissioned

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Through coordination with Iowa Department of Natural Resources and United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE), Smith-Root has designed and installed an electrical fish barrier atop the dam at Lower Gar Lake. This barrier, powered by seven 1.5kVA pulsators, covers 165 feet in width and 3.2 feet in... Read More →

Graduated Fields of Pulsed DC Tested on Sea Lamprey Transformers

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Smith-Root was recently contracted by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to complete an “Evaluation of a Non-Lethal, Graduated Fields of Pulsed DC to Guide Downstream Migrating Sea Lamprey Transformers” at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Hammond Bay Biological Center in Millersburg, MI. Sea lampreys... Read More →

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