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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We also were concerned at the one electrofishing site where David Reed (LetterS, April 21) witnessed our stocked trout population survey. Trout there were more distressed than usual as a result of ...