Asian carp live meeting

Spread of Silver Carp — Present. Asian Carp Canada is your resource for information and news regarding Asian carp developments in Canada. This site connects visitors to the most recent prevention technologies, early warning measures, response efforts, and the overall threat of Asian carps to the Great Lakes and beyond. This poses a hazard for anglers, boaters and other recreational users.

Representatives of the states and provinces met this week in Chicago to discuss a U. The facility is considered a choke point where electric barriers, air bubbles and underwater noisemakers could be used to scare away the invasive fish, which have infested the Illinois River. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

December 10, On a bleak and biting December morning, a team of state-contracted commercial fishermen at Starved Rock Marina slipped into their waders, salted down their johnboats to protect against ice and launched onto the Illinois River. Armed with thousands of yards of netting, the fleet set course for a cove at Sheehan Island where they suspected a horde of silver and bighead carp, the most abundant and worrisome species of invasive Asian carp, were holed up for the winter. Within less than a half-hour, the fishermen transformed the inlet, which is big enough to hold Millennium Park, into an enormous booby trap, layering netting from the shores to the mouth of the bay.

Officials from all six Great Lakes states and their Canadian counterparts met in Chicago last month to pore over the U. The Corps is advancing a plan to build a barrier on a river outside Chicago to keep the carp from moving into Lake Michigan from the Illinois River system where they have exploded in number. That barrier would include electric current, air bubbles and sound devices to thwart the carp from moving past. The project, as proposed by Army Corps, is located at what is considered a key chokepoint in the fight against Asian carp. It would place additional electric barriers in the waterway to stop the invasive species from moving through the lock and dam.