Army Corps asked why $9M fish barrier isn’t on
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A group of 29 U.S. senators and representatives want to know why a new electrical fish barrier isn’t being used to keep Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan.
The group wrote a letter this week to the Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Coast Guard asking why the $9 million barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal hasn’t been turned on. It was finished in 2006.
The letter says the congressional coalition understands the need to thoroughly test the barrier’s safety “but these tests have lasted for many months. Meanwhile, Asian carp continue to head closer to the barrier.”
Imported Asian carp escaped containment ponds in Arkansas years ago and have been slowly moving north through the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. The fish are now 45 miles from Lake Michigan.
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Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com
Dec 21, 2008 at 10:45 a.m.
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Unbelievable... there are many, many other ways the Asian Carp can enter the Lakes. The only real way to stop this threat is to wall off every possible entrance to the lakes from the Mississippi basin. Not possible. Electrifying water on a public waterway is a pretty risky venture.
Dec 14, 2008 at 9:46 a.m.
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This is simple all the money has gone to bail out banks and now to those Car companys
Dec 13, 2008 at 10:53 p.m.
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metromilton i prefer grenades ya get your limit in less than a half hour .
Dec 13, 2008 at 4:54 p.m.
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How about nets and explosives??
They dye the river green on St Pats Day, how about adding some Carp killer to the river with the dye???
It won't reach Lake Mich as they reversed the flow of the river years ago.....
Dec 13, 2008 at 10:56 a.m.
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Let's start a "backfire" by dropping some Rock River carp into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The Asian carp will swim back to their containment ponds as fast as their little fins will let them.
Dec 13, 2008 at 10:15 a.m.
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Time to start creating some good carp recipes.
Dec 13, 2008 at 7:31 a.m.
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I have no comment.
Dec 13, 2008 at 2:50 a.m.
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Oh, eradicate them! Why didn't anybody think of that? I guess this eradication thing must be really easy, too, and there are eradication experts out there just waiting to go, but gosh, somebody is keeping them from it.
Dec 12, 2008 at 8:27 p.m.
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peppermeister
I was fishing at the WP&L by townline rd and caught a 28 in bicycle so hell i'm goona keep this sucker, earlier i hauled up a tricycle but i threw it back CuZ it was to small .
Dec 12, 2008 at 8:05 p.m.
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It's a very serious issue. The Great Lakes have already suffered grave damage due to the zebra mussel, and folks may remember the periodic alewife die-offs; the species has already all but destroyed sport fishing on the lakes and the Asian carp could deal the death blow.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/3...
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The Army Corps never wanted the barrier in the first place, and tends to view its job as serving riverine traffic first, and protecting the environment somewhere well below that. It took a special act of Congress to get the project funded.
Dec 12, 2008 at 7:43 p.m.
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the carp are overrunning (swimming) the rock river. squander some of that money to protect us from them.
Dec 12, 2008 at 6:06 p.m.
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Maybe they can't afford the electric bill.
Dec 12, 2008 at 5:55 p.m.
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Something smells fishy in Illinois (besides Governors Blagojevich, Ryan, Walker, and Kerner).
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Scotty... get those shields up!
Dec 12, 2008 at 4:27 p.m.
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Did we forget our medication today, Pepper?
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