Schafer, 50, owns Schafer Fisheries in Thomson, Illinois, a Mississippi River town 150 miles west of Chicago.
Some escaped during floods and have migrated northward in the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
Homes that were built between the levee and the Mississippi River were the first affected.
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The Mississippi River is expected to crest at 26.6 feet in Taft on May 23.
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Its 21, 000 miles of rail routes cover 23 states east of the Mississippi River.
Vital clues about what caused the bridge to crumble may be lying in the Mississippi River.
Severe storms are likely Saturday and Sunday in the Mississippi River, Ohio River and Tennessee River valleys.
The flood is the most significant to hit the lower Mississippi River valley since at least 1937.
The younger Guthrie, who navigates cargo ships on the Mississippi River, said he couldn't really imagine leaving.
Much of New Orleans is built on the geological equivalent of a down pillow: Mississippi River sediment.
Mississippi River levels vary greatly but are typically highest in the spring, so minor flooding is not uncommon.
Carr added that several hundred power customers in Greenville, near the Mississippi River, were in the dark.
Oil built Texas and it could have built Louisiana too (and it has the Mississippi River to boot).
This has restrained the path of the Mississippi River and stymied its ability to naturally replenish sediment deposits.
"So long as the Mississippi River flows to the sea, we will never forget your generosity, " she said.
Divers are still searching the muddy Mississippi River, looking for those lost when the interstate bridge in Minneapolis collapsed last week.
More than 100 people were injured Wednesday when the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River.
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Mississippi River is changing as the flooding is rearranging life on land and overrunning parts of the bayou.
Thousands of people strolling along the Mississippi River licking their sauce-stained fingers and washing it down with cooler-chilled beers.
Bighead and silver carp imported from Asia decades ago have infested the Mississippi River and many of its tributaries.
The effects of nutrient pollution are increasingly apparent throughout the Mississippi River basin.
Mr. JERRY GARCIA (The Grateful Dead): (Singing) Mississippi River so big and wide, blond haired woman on the other side.
The fish have migrated northward in the Mississippi River and many tributaries since escaping from Deep South ponds in the 1970s.
These days it has the logic of thinking of the difference between investing east or west of the Mississippi River.
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He's not involved in this week's search efforts, but he's been diving in the Mississippi River for more than 30 years.
Megan Arseneaux, 19, was hunkered down Monday morning in her home in Harahan, Louisiana, two blocks from the Mississippi River.
Some had fallen into the Mississippi River below, which was littered with concrete chunks that broke off during the collapse.
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New Orleans sits mostly below sea level on swampland on the east bank of the Mississippi River and south of Lake Pontchartrain.
We thrived along the upper Mississippi River until being forcibly removed by the US government to Indian Territory, which later became Oklahoma.
The huge, voracious fish have infested the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
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