Asian carp in news

For many onlookers, Thursday's catch presents cause for alarm. ET July 11, A silver carp caught in a Chicago waterway on June 23 was 28 inches long. No other evidence of Asian carp infesting waterways near Lake Michigan was found at that time. Massive flooding in the s allowed these fish to escape into the Mississippi River system and migrate into the Missouri and Illinois rivers. Eradication of Asian carp, if they were to enter the Great Lakes, would be difficult and expensive. Largemouth bass and other native predators have been known to feed on small Asian carp.

Autopsy says carp got past electric barriers CHICAGO, IL -- An adult live Asian carp was caught about 9 miles from Lake Michigan this week, far north of the leading edge of the invasive fish population in the Illinois River and upstream of an electric barrier designed to keep them from the Great Lakes. The black carp is found in China and parts of Russia and Vietnam. Gigging means spearing or impaling fish on any pronged or barbed instrument attached to the end of any rigid object. Common carp are abundant throughout the Great Lakes. Electric barriers are set up to keep them out of Lake Michigan, but skeptics fear young fish will slip through. They can swim up the Mississippi River. The environmental impacts of these fish are not yet completely understood, but there is serious concern that these carp will harm larval fish and mussel populations by competing directly with them for food.

They can fly over a fishing boat, ten feet in the air, hitting fishermen with the force of a bowling ball. In July, , the U. Gigging means spearing or impaling fish on any pronged or barbed instrument attached to the end of any rigid object. Catfish have a daily creel limit of 5 in aggregate and paddlefish have a daily creel limit of 2. Irons called discovery "disappointing" but said it's too early to tell whether the fish swam from downstream or was released somewhere else in the Chicago waterway system.