Update: Busy times on the front lines of the battle between man and Asian Carp, the deadly river fish that could 86 the entire Great Lakes’ ecosystem if they should happen to sneak inside. Last month scientists discovered trace samples of carp DNA at two locations. As a caution, the Columbus Dispatch reports, state officials recently searched 58 sites for carp. None were found. All, maybe, is safe.
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Get the kids out of the water, man your spear guns, and enjoy tasty perch while you can: Deadly fish could be coming, and they’re programmed to kill.
The region’s epic fight against Asian carp — the deadly species of river swimmer that’s been banging on the shores of the Great Lakes for years, with promises to make a mess of things once they get in — might have taken a seriously bad turn. A power outage at a defensive post near Chicago — yes, we have anti-fish forts — left our flank exposed for 13 minutes last week, according to officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The outage could have allowed untold numbers of carp a free pass into the Great Lakes and its connecting canals.
What’s yet to be determined is whether the power loss was the result of a simple mechanical error or evidence of the carp’s superior brain activity.
This article appears in Aug 8-14, 2012.
lets eat ’em!
close the locks!
I wish we could just close the locks, problem is the locks weren’t built to stop fish from passing, they pass through free at will when they are closed. I live in Chicago and fish the area, we are all watching very closely for the first signs of these monsters in the lakes. They will ruin this paradise we have
So, am I the only one that thinks the guy in the picture is being inappropriate with that big ass fish?