Dan Egan reports that the Asian Carp’s DNA has been detected beyond the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal’s electronic barrier and all attempts to halt the fish from entering the Great Lakes system may be too late.
A new kind of DNA testing shows the presence of the carp in the water beyond the barrier. “We’ve got some bad problems,” Dan Thomas, president of the Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council, told Dan Egan.
Because of this, Thomas recommends expanding the poisoning from just under six miles to about 20 miles downstream from Lake Michigan. “Unless we treat that canal real quick as far up as we can, then we can almost be assured that they’re on their way into the lake,” he said.
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