Visitors can choose to visit rooms with river fish and animals, or they can explore creatures found in warm tropical waters.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The husband went early to the river to fish.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

He seeks catfish and buffalo fish, tastier and more marketable species found in lakes and rivers like the Illinois River.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Gradually,Asian Carp edge out the other native species in the river until they are one of the only kinds of fish left.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

This part of the Illinois River near Morris is several miles southwest of the electronic fish barrier, a critical point along the Illinois waterway system meant to stop the Asian Carp from reaching Lake Michigan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

He says increased demand for the fish could solve two problems - getting paid to fish a nuisance out of the river, and returning the populations of native fish to normal levels not seen in several decades.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

He also is a commercial crabber and fisherman. He says if the shut down continues on the east side of the Mississippi, Louisiana's' seafood industry will survive,because 70 percent of the state's fish and shellfish come from the west side of the river.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08