Asian carp may have breached barrier
(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - The decade-old battle to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes might be over. New research shows the fish likely have made it past the $9 million electric fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a source familiar with the situation told the Journal Sentinel late Thursday.
The barrier is considered the last chance to stop the super-sized fish that can upend entire ecosystems, and recent environmental DNA tests showed that the carp had advanced to within a mile of the barrier.
That research backed the federal government into a desperate situation because the barrier must be turned off within a couple of weeks for regular maintenance. The plan is to spend some $1.5 million to temporarily poison the canal so the maintenance work can be done. More
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POSTED: Friday, November 20th, 2009
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
To Whom It May Concern,
For God’s sake, we need to admit our efforts to date to control the Asian Carp have failed.
We must, we must we MUST take the drastic measure that you and every other man and woman who is part of this initiative knows is the only measure left that, maybe, possibly might just work.
The waterway that flows out of Lake Michigan and is the ecosystem that will bring this devastation to each and every one of our great inland fresh water seas MUST be poisoned to the extent that any carp will be killed.
For God’s sake, do it now.
Timothy F. Flanner
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