Monster Fish Breach Electric Barrier, Heading for Great Lakes

[captnemo]

Scientists recently collected 32 DNA samples of Asian carp between the barrier and Lake Michigan in waterways south of Chicago, although the fish have yet to be spotted in the area, said Maj. Gen. John Peabody of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

If the feared bighead and silver carp have made it through the $9 million barrier, the only remaining obstacle between the carp and Lake Michigan is a navigational lock on the Calumet River.

Still, federal officials insisted, a Great Lakes invasion is not inevitable.

“We’re going to keep throwing everything we possibly can at them to keep them out,” said Cameron Davis, senior Great Lakes adviser to Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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It's a great thing when federal dollars are available. It's like someone turned on a faucet. Once they approve of something, it's get rich time for all the federal contractors. In the meantime, they can't seem to get a handle on accurate figures for catch data. go figure.

[stripercrazy]

Tell all the illegal immigrants that anyone who can catch and kill 10,000 of them gets their citizenship papers. Problem solved.

[vpass]

I wounder if these carp could be processed like bunker. If so they could take some of the pressure off the Bunker.