Chicago flooding a threat to wash Asian Carp into Lake Michigan

Rains have brought the Des Plaines River on the east side of Chicago to major flood stage and a record flood crest was expected yesterday. Asian Carp are present in the Des Plaines River and the flood event is capable of washing significant numbers of Asian Carp from the Des Plaines River into a canal that feeds directly into Lake Michigan. 

LINK (via:Wunderground)

Due to the flooding brown trout are also being diverted into Lake Michigan.

Carp Confusion

We're winning the fight against Asian Carp!

The federal government is winning the battle to keep Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, according to an Obama administration official.

LINK (via: Ecowatch)

We're losing the fight against Asian Carp!

Asian carp are reproducing in more places and under more varied conditions than experts had believed they could, yet another reason to worry about the greedy invader’s potential to infest waterways and crowd out native species, scientists said Tuesday.

LINK (via: CBS 62 Detroit)

Carpocalypse

A 20-pound bighead Asian carp has been caught just six miles from Lake Michigan, past an electronic barrier designed to keep the fish from entering the Great Lakes.

It's the first time such a fish has been found upriver of the electronic barrier, officials with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources confirmed. There is no barrier between where the fish was found and the mouth of Lake Michigan.

LINK (via: Minnpost)

What ya in for?

Selling Asian carp.

LINK (via: Arkansas On Line)

Carp Barrier Breakdown

An electric barrier near Chicago designed to prevent Asian carp and other species from migrating between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River system had a 13-minute power outage.

LINK (via: The Chicago Tribune)

Pull!!

A bill introduced by Illinois Rep. Dave Winters, would allow a statewide pilot program that would “permit licensed individuals to shoot Asian carp with a shotgun off of a motorboat in the Illinois River beginning with the 2013 licensing year,” provided that said individuals have the proper licenses and are using a specific ammunition.

LINK (Via Petersens Hunting)