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Written by Detroit News
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Monday, 21 December 2009 10:57 |
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to flex its muscle in the fight to keep invasive Asian carp from Lake Michigan. In a press conference this morning, Cox will announce his intention to ask the court to order all "federal, state and local authorities" to close the locks.
His move comes just weeks after authorities poisoned a section of the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal to halt the spread of the carp, which are considered a major threat to the ecosystem of Lake Michigan. That project produced one Asian carp above an electrical barrier designed to keep the fish out of Lake Michigan.
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Written by Chicago Tribune
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 07:46 |
Conservationists and government biologists, stunned by new indications of the advance of Asian carp toward Lake Michigan, are trading ideas for poisoning Chicago-area rivers, conducting emergency electrofishing or chemically neutering the wily fish.
On Friday, sophisticated genetic testing near Chicago found evidence of the carp within 7 miles of Lake Michigan after apparently leaping an electrical barrier once called the last line of defense for the Great Lakes.
The prospect of the voracious, prolific Asian carp reaching the Great Lakes -- a fragile ecosystem reeling from other invasive species -- has been the greatest fear of the lakes coalition.
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Written by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 13:42 |
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning Wednesday to turn on its new $9 million Asian carp barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Biologists call the fish-shocking contraption the last line of defense in the fight to keep the supersized cousins to the common carp from invading the Great Lakes.
Construction on the barrier was finished three years ago but the Army Corps had refused to turn it on, fearing it could be deadly to barge operators and recreational boaters plying the canal - an artificial link between the Mississippi River basin and Lake Michigan.
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Written by Cadillac News
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Thursday, 14 December 2006 07:42 |
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Two electronic barriers separate Lake Michigan from the Chicago ship canal. If the barriers are breached, it could prove devastating to the Great
Lakes region. The effort is underway to control the movement of two
species of Asian carp, which are “knocking on the door,” according to
Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Supervisor Tom Rozich.
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Written by Detroit Free Press
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 07:03 |
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Trying
to net an Asian carp that was soaring through the air a few feet away,
Mike Pernet didn't see another 10-pound fish flying at his head until
it hit him square in the mouth.
"It hurt," Pernet said, blood running from his mouth and down his chin as he sat in a johnboat on the Illinois River.
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