The White House Asian Carp czar convened a meeting Monday at Michigan State University. Great Lakes states are discussing their efforts to stop the invasive fish. Michigan Now’s Chris McCarus reports.
Indiana just finished building a 1,200 foot long, 8 foot high chain link fence across a wetland near Fort Wayne. Mark Reiter is head of The Fish and Wildlife Division of the Indiana DNR.
“The risk is during those months when the Asian carp want to spawn and they’ll feel that flow toward the St. Mary’s River and want to swim across that divide when there’s flood water in there and spawn. So we’ll have something in there that’s a two inch mesh. But it will stop the adults from moving upstream to spawn.”
Carp already inhabit the Wabash River to the west. The fence is meant to stop Asian carp from moving east into the St. Mary’s River then The Maumee River across northern Ohio to Toledo and into Lake Erie.