Tag: Mississippi River

Sustainable Dining and Commercial Fishing: The answer to invasive Asian Carp?

1/30/2024 - By Carli Stewart. A professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Mark Morgan, has spent over a decade researching Asian carp, an invasive species to the United States. Also known as silver carp, the fish was introduced to the U.S. in the 1970s to help with water purification in catfish ponds.… SEE MORE

Port of New Orleans Receives Federal Funding for New Mississippi River Container Terminal

1/1/2024 - By Mike Schuler. The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has been awarded $73.77 million by the federal government to support the construction of a major new container terminal on the Mississippi River. The funding will be provided through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s MEGA Grant Program and will be… SEE MORE

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A Mini Mississippi River May Help Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast

2/26/2020 - By John Schwartz. We were standing on the levee of the Mississippi River, about an hour west of Boston. Of course, the actual Mississippi River is a half-continent away. We were in fact in a vast, warehouse-size laboratory above a scale model of a bend in the river in Louisiana,… SEE MORE

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