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WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) - State biologists hope electric shocks can help them remove a voracious, non-native catfish from a south Georgia river where it is devouring native fish.
A crew of three DNR biologists is on the Satilla River three or four days a week, sending an electrical charge into the water that temporarily stuns the giant flathead catfish. Then they grab them up in nets and remove them permanently from one of Georgia's most pristine rivers.
Under a flathead eradication project that was funded during the 2006 legislative session, the three-member crew will be on the river from April until October.
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