window of opportunity to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes is closing fast. Not only was a 3-foot carp found in Illinois beyond the electric barriers intended to keep them out of Lake Michigan, but according to the Dayton Daily News, they are also moving up the Wabash and Ohio rivers where a flood could lead to the carp eventually making it into Lake Erie.
Asian carp are like giant vacuum cleaners, devouring the food that other fish rely on for survival and threatening the commercial and recreational fishing industries in the Great Lakes. The invasive species pose not only an economic threat, but a serious ecological threat as well since they could obliterate native fish populations.
America is already contending with a catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, the last thing we need is another ecological disaster on our hands.
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[I]guess we got wall of the wabash and the ohio rivers now too.[/I]