The end of the Great Loop

[Presentation]

Is anyone else following this?

Asian carp are now just miles away from Lake Michigan.

Michigan is trying to get Illinois to close its locks to prevent the Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan and potentially destroying a $7 Billion fishing industry.

I don’t want to see the great loop close and I don’t want to see the great lakes contaminated with Asian carp.

 

[Tonka Boater]

Is anyone else following this?

Asian carp are now just miles away from Lake Michigan.

Michigan is trying to get Illinois to close its locks to prevent the Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan and potentially destroying a $7 Billion fishing industry.

I don’t want to see the great loop close and I don’t want to see the great lakes contaminated with Asian carp.

I'm with you but there is no choice but to close the locks. The impact of those things getting into the Great Lakes far outweighs any other impacts of closing the locks.

Someone needs to invent a fish-cide that only kills asian carp (all carp for that matter) and treat every body of water affected. I hate those bastards.
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[mwph]

I don't know enough about it but this thread may lead you to those that do...

http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25684&highlight=asian+carp

 

[chuck1]

If they close the lock, they could always do a rail system like they have in Canada so the canal will still be there. Do they think by just closing the lock it will stop the spread of the carp? Hate to tell them that wont work, somebody will have some eggs in the bilge or fish wet wells and they will still end up in the lakes. Like Tonka said they need to find something to kill them ASAP.

 

[Presentation]

chuck, I was thinking the same way.

Lift dam or water treatment but it must include cleaning the boats live wells, etc.

 

[Southpaw II]

The carp are here to stay. These, and other types of non-native fish have arrived via international vessels, and without stopping the vessels, there is nothing economically feasible you can do about it.

Go back in history and look at all the species that have arrived here that are non-native. European Starlings, and even most of us. Sorry, but we live in an all inclusive society now......

 

[C-SIDE]

I agree with you Southpaw, you can never stop mother nature. Its just a matter of time before us boaters on Lake Michigan and eventually the other great lakes have to deal with it.


It is a shame

 

[Jackie J V]

Sometimes you can have success with invasive species. In his post, Chuck1 referred to the marine railway that exists on the Trent-Severn waterway connecting Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) with Lake Ontario.

No idea if this would work in the context of the Chicago locks - probably not if there's commercial shipping.

Big Chute, the Marine Railway, was left in place due to the invasive species of the day 40 years ago - the Lamprey Eel - and the need to keep the eel away from destroying the lucrative Lake Simcoe fishery. Combined with a fish stocking and Lamprecide program, it seemed to work (to my novice mind). Nobody talks about a significant concern with Lamprey eels these days.

Hopefully someone finds a reasonable solution that doesn't create a new problem!

 

[Mr Salt]

The government has tried to run low voltage electricity the canal to keep the fish from crossing into Lake Michigan. The plan does not appear to be working. Somehow a few have gotten through. So the issue is already one that is effecting the lakes. Once again the government allowed something to come into the country that should not and does not have any natural emenies, so we once agian get to pay the price. Of course it was governments who let us here in the first place and we are screwing it up.

 

[Newbie]

Everything you wanted to know about the asian carp and then some....

The estimated impact to the recreational and commercial Great Lakes fisheries would reach to over $4.5 billion.

Oh, I thought this was all a big deal but it's really only a measly 4.5b, that's nothing these days... Where should the Dems send the check??

I see an asian carp bail out coming to a great lake near you.