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...something worthy of the X Games, which may be fine for the extreme-angling participants of the wild Redneck Fishing Tournament in Illinois, where silver carp are the target and black eyes sustained from flying fish are a badge of honor. But your average day-tripping sportsman on Lake Michigan might not appreciate an airborne carp smacking him in the kisser. "They are living missiles, and that's not trivial," says David Lodge, director of Notre Dame's Center for Aquatic Conservation...
...certain that Asian carp have made it into the Great Lakes. The Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes are connected only through the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which leads from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. (It's not uncommon for invasions to occur when humans connect ecosystems that have naturally been kept separate.) The Army Corps of Engineers put an electric barrier in the canal to prevent the carp from infiltrating Lake Michigan, but it may not have been enough - although no live fish have been found yet, last month a team of scientists discovered...
Maybe, but that's not how the governors of Michigan and Wisconsin are treating the problem. They want the locks of the Chicago canal to be shut down immediately, to prevent the carp from ever gaining a finhold in the Great Lakes. But Illinois lawmakers argue that closing the canal would disrupt hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of shipping. A coalition of six Great Lakes states and the Canadian province of Ontario even sought an injunction last month from the Supreme Court to force an immediate shutdown of the canal; the court declined to issue the ruling but will...
...preventive efforts don't work, you might want to put on a helmet the next time you go waterskiing on Lake Michigan...
...Supreme Court rejected Michigan's request to temporarily shut down three locks to stop mammoth Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes. But the battle is far from over. As news broke that scientists had detected DNA from the fish in Lake Michigan, the White House--which also opposed the shutdown--agreed to convene an Asian-carp summit for worried Great Lakes governors. U.S. Representative Dave Camp of Michigan, meanwhile, introduced a bill to halt the potential spread of the aggressive fish and develop a strategy to close the waterways...