Carp barrier maintenance not just Corps’ problem, official says
(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - A lot of noise has been made in recent weeks about President Barack Obama’s $5 billion Great Lakes restoration plan, but nobody in the federal government right now is willing to spend a penny so necessary maintenance can be done on the Asian carp barrier built to keep the jumbo jumping fish from spilling into Lake Michigan.
The electric barrier, located about 20 miles south of the Lake Michigan shoreline on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, was turned on last April but requires regular maintenance every six months. Biologists liken it to an oil change in a car, and to do the work the barrier needs to be shut down for a day or two. More
The devastation to perch fishing by the gobi is nothing compared to the ecological/tourism collapse that the asian carp will bring to the great lakes. With so many problems in the state already we can ill afford to lose a majority of the $18 billion tourist trade do to bad fishing and kids getting knocked off personal watercraft by 35lbs of panicked carp leaping out of the water.
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