Single Asian Carp Found 6 Miles From Lake Michigan (first found beyond electronic barriers)

[Purveyor]

CHICAGO (AP) -- Officials say an Asian carp has been found for the first time beyond the electric barriers constructed to keep the dreaded invasive species out of the Great Lakes.

State and federal officials said Wednesday that commercial fishermen found the 3-foot-long, 20-pound carp in Lake Calumet on Chicago's South Side, about six miles downstream of Lake Michigan.

The single carp is the first to be found in a Chicago waterway above the Army Corps of Engineers' electric barrier system.

Officials say they'll use electrofishing and netting to remove any carp from the lake.

Scientists and fishermen fear that they if the carp become established in the Great Lakes, they could starve out popular sport fish such as salmon and walleye. They can grow to 100 pounds and 4 feet.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ASIAN_CARP_GREAT_LAKES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-06-23-16-56-46

[TheWraith]

1. Close the damned waterway.

The effort of loading and unloading cargo to bring it across Chicago is not worth destroying the Great Lakes.

[blue_onyx]

11. Not going to happen

Money always wins. I wish Obama would come to his senses on this issue.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Let BP drill a well there!

[Octafish]

4. Why not? They're already allowed to dump mercury right into Lake Michigan.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/environment/2007-07-30-mercury_N.htm

[damntexdem]

7. When I lived in Chi-town, I remember taking the Skyway across Wolf Lake.

Right in the middle was a sign saying "Dumping of radioactive materials prohibited."

I always figured that if they had to put up a sign prohibiting it ...

[Hubert Flottz]

9. I don't think I'd want to eat a walleye out of there.

They'll do anything to you to make a quick buck, clams be damned.

[Soylent Brice]

10. fucking hell.

:banghead:

[sufrommich]

3. I sincerely hope they figure out a way to keep these

monsters out of our Great Lakes. Truly frightening..

[HereSince1628]

5. Where there is one there are gonna be more

It's a statistical improbability that they've capture 'the only one'

This was a growing problem in the Mississippi near the SIU fish farm when I was an undergrad. They aren't gonna be stopped even by snakeheads
which I see as just as serious a problem

[valerief]

6. Can we use another country's corp of engineers to fix this problem?

The Army Corp of Engineers didn't do too well with NOLA.

[Dogmudgeon]

8. OH NO! They have evolved the Power of FLIGHT!

:hide:

--d!