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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Asian carp found in Lower Wisconsin River
e-mail print By Dan Egan of the Journal Sentinel
Aug. 11, 2011 11:52 a.m. |(11) Comments
Even as the federal government is spending $20,000 each day to operate and maintain an electric barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in a desperate attempt to keep Asian carp from colonizing the Great Lakes, the super-sized leaping fish are apparently finding other ways to continue their inexorable migration north - not into Lake Michigan, but into Wisconsin's inland waters.
An angler recently snagged a bighead carp in the Lower Wisconsin River in southwestern Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported Thursday. At the same time, "environmental" DNA sampling on the St. Croix River on the northwestern border of the state has turned up positive samples of silver carp, the DNR reported.
Silver and bighead carp are the two species of Asian carp that biologists are worried most about in terms of impacts they can have on native ecosystems.
The fish, imported to North America by Southern fish farmers, have been migrating north for decades after escaping their containment ponds and have overwhelmed some stretches of river in the Mississippi basin below Wisconsin.
Asian carp were first detected in the Mississippi River along Wisconsin's western border 15 years ago, but Thursday's announcement was the first time a bighead carp has been documented on the Wisconsin River, according to DNR spokeswoman Laurel Steffes.
A bighead was also captured near the mouth of the St. Croix River earlier this year, but a recent round of DNA tests indicates the fish may be more widespread on that river than earlier believed.
Still, officials don't think the fish have infested these northern waterways anywhere near to the extent that they have in states like Illinois and Missouri.
Another positive, DNR officials say, is that dams on the Wisconsin and St. Croix rivers will block the fish from migrating farther inland.
But officials, who speculate this year's high waters on the Mississippi River are to blame for the carp's apparent advance, are worried nonetheless. They note most of the carp fight so far has been directed at protecting the Great Lakes, but they say guarding inland waters should also be a major concern.
"We need the federal government to recognize the importance of the Mississippi River basin's invasive species problem and give it the attention and funding it deserves," Bob Wakeman, the DNR's invasive species coordinator, said in a news release.
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | The good ole days may have just ended. At least in my lifetime. |
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Location: Berlin | Sunshine - 8/11/2011 7:57 PM The good ole days may have just ended. At least in my lifetime. I hear they tase better then walleyes, maybe the good ole days have just begun? |
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| Well youve heard wrong. In the bigger picture they are invasive spieceies. Not a good thing no matter what. |
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| 3/4 of the fish in lake Mich are invasives |
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| Well what has the DNR done about invasives in the past ? |
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Location: Berlin | I think we are invasives... |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | I don't know how many of you heard this stunning news yesterday on FOX news, but scientists have found a cure for Cancer. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/10/amazing-therapy-destroys-l... It brought tears to my eyes and I was shocked this is not front page news and being brodcast on every TV and Radio channel. But it's true. They found a way to draw out, genetically manipulate your white blood cells and re-introduce them back into your body to target, attack and absorb the cancer. 3 people with leukemia and only days to live were cured and are now cancer free. A mans 6 pound cancer tumor was absorbed and he was cancer free in 2 weeks. So why can't we find a solution to kill or stop a fish?
Edited by walleye express 8/12/2011 8:14 AM
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| Since these carp stress with the sound of an outboard motor…stress them to death. Record the exact sound of an outboard motor and place underwater speakers throughout the river system….continually play the amplified sound for weeks on end causing them to be continually stressed and wear them out to death…that or force them to listen to Justin Bieber all day. |
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Location: Berlin | Did you hear that Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato might be doing a duet??!! OMG...I can't imagine how totally awesome that would be. Fingers crossed! |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Thought I heard somewhere that China wanted to export these critters for eating again. If that's the case we are okay, we all know anything that China imports from us becomes endangered. (Like steel) |
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Location: Berlin | Maybe we can pay off our deficit with asian carp... |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | We all need to enter those redneck tournaments.
Wonder what kind of stand PETA is taking on this?
Rich, I am finally ready to make that order, you still interested? Sorry it took so long, they had lots backordered. |
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| man rich them carp are going to effect you going 80 and them jumping into your boat hitting you in the face dont sound like a laughing matter for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol |
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Location: Berlin | Trust me, while going fast those carp are the least of my worries, I think a June Bug would finish me off. Dennis, absolutely. Keep me posted and thanks!
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| Guest - 8/12/2011 5:22 PM
man rich them carp are going to effect you going 80 and them jumping into your boat hitting you in the face dont sound like a laughing matter for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Actually, it's very true. I know someone who's wife suffered a broken jaw after being struck by a jumping asian carp on the Illinois River. |
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REALLY BAD NEWS!!!!!