I started to post on this topic this morning. Then an e-mail popped in and low and behold I lost my long boring post. But anyway, it seems Asiatic carp are making their way to the Great Lakes to disrupt their $7Billion fishing industry.
I am not sure I buy the source of the carp infestation.
Bighead and silver carp — both native to Asia — have been migrating toward the lakes since escaping from Deep South fish ponds and sewage treatment plants in the 1970s. The biggest can reach 100 pounds and 4 feet long, consuming up to 40 percent of their body weight daily in plankton, the base of the aquatic food chain. Once established in the lakes, the carp could starve out the prey fish on which popular species such as salmon and whitefish depend.
What are Deep South fish ponds doing with all this Asiatic carp???
Anyway, we are settling for the temporary $78.5 million plan of strengthening an electric barrier designed to block the carp's advance and using nets or poisons to nab fish that make it through. Some wanted to cut ties between the lakes and the Mississippi — would mean reconfiguring some 70 miles of canals and rivers. That's a massive undertaking that could not happen quickly and is fervently opposed by barge operators who move millions of tons of commodities through the Chicago locks each year.
So, Sooz have you seen any of these ugly things?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_asian_carp_great_lakes
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