Federal Government to Spend 79 million to Catch Chinese Carp

The ferocious Chinese Carp species seeking access to the Great Lakes and the tender prey that are salmonids require a guided $79 million dollar fishing research expedition to halt. A variety of mechanical methods to keep the carp from slipping through locks connecting the Lakes to the Illinois and Mississippi river drainage seem the best method now--especially since 'genetic material' of the carp was already discovered at the Lake Superior side crime scene.

Plainly it will be challenging to prevent little minnow carp from achieving the freedom of Lake Michigan easy pickings deli of native American fish. Maybe the Zebra muscles of the Lakes can go viral and lure the carp in close enough to snap their shell on them?

If experience at restoring Columbia River chinook salmon runs or keeping northern pike out of Alaskan rivers like the Susitna are a guide to federal failures at managing fisheries, we can count on the fact that someone eventually will take a bag of carp minnows as live bait in a plastic bad from the infested rivers and release them into Lake Michigan at the end of the day.

Rather than a mechanical solution, there must be some kind of species specific anti-Asian carp element found to neutralize or terminate the carp life cycle even if it achieves domination in the Lake first. With the profusion of D.N.A. research it would seem that a biological control technique should be discovered. Because that area of interest is of a concern--anything methodically applied should have zero possibility of harmful unintended consequences for any other species including the human race.

It is not impossible that a fish bio-war may be declared by the U.S. Government after the mechanical defense at the Chicago River front is defeated by the clever, ruthless carp. If the problem was the fundamental thrashing of the health of the national ecosystem by corporatism and government design, it would be fair enough to blame the voracious fish for their disrespect for American trout and salmon.

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