Asian carp News

With the threat of the Asian carp entering Lake Michigan, the Michigan state legislature has allocated one million dollars for a prize for anyone who comes up with new ideas, or better yet, a sure-fire plan to get rid of the invasive and voracious fish.

Chicago - A giant prehistoric fish once thought to be extinct could be the solution to the worsening invasion of non-native Asian carp that is choking U.S. rivers and crowding out local species.

"One man's trash is another man's treasure." And so it is with the Asian carp, considered a delicious fish in China, but an unwanted, invasive species in the United States. Soon, the much-maligned invaders may find themselves being sent back to China.

An updated Monitoring and Response Plan (MRP) to protect the Great Lakes from an invasive species of Asian carp has been announced.

Startling statistic of the week: half a million invasive silver carp are dead in a Kentucky river, and nobody knows why.

Invasive species control costs the economy of Ontario tens of millions of dollars annually. The impact these foreign invaders make on the ecology and the environment is often irreparable, if not irreversible. Ontario is doing something about the problem.

Asian carp were imported to the United States in the 1970's to control algae in aquaculture ponds. But much like the mongoose that was imported to the Hawaii islands to control rats, the carp proliferated and are now an invasive, nuisance species.

New York - New evidence indicates that invasive Asian carp have bred in the Lake Erie basin. Scientists fear the impact that the carp will have on established ecosystems.

Five US states have sued Chicago’s water authority and the federal government in an effort to stop an invasion of Asian carp into the Great Lakes.

Chicago - Despite an extensive search of the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal near Lake Michigan, no Asian carp were netted. Many warn this operation, and its failure to find an Asian carp, proves nothing.

An Asian carp has been found in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) just above the Lockport Lock and Dam. This is the first fish specimen to confirm what eDNA testing earlier this year suggested. Asian carp are in the CSSC.

Riding a wave of flood water, Asian carp are poised to make their final thrust past all barriers to reach Lake Michigan. Will government react in time to prevent this environmental disaster?

On the line of those big fish tales comes along a news story about a teen whose jaw got broken when a fish flew out of the water and hit him in the face. The Silver Asian Carp didn't fare so well; it pretty much exploded on impact.