The Battle to Save Yellowstone from Invasive Fish [Slide Show]

The National Park Service is scoring some victories in its fight to eradicate nonnative lake trout from Yellowstone’s largest lake.

Released by an anonymous angler in the 1980's lake trout have come to dominate Yellowstone Lake—sending native cutthroat trout into steep decline and wreaking havoc on this iconic ecosystem. Now, the National Park Service (NPS) believes its intensive gillnetting efforts are turning the tide against the invader

LINK (via: Scientific American)

If the terrorists get Asian carp the terrorists win

The great Flathead fish fiasco

Everything you wanted to know about the debate over how to handle Flathead Lake's invasive lake trout. 

LINK (via: The Missoula Independent)

Asian carp eggs found 250 miles further upstream

Photo:USFWS

The eggs and late-stage embryos of bighead or silver carp have been found in the Mississippi River near Lynxville in Crawford County — 250 miles north of any previously known reproducing population for the invasive carp.

The finding is the latest sign that the destructive fish are slowly moving up the Mississippi River basin and into inland waters of the Midwest.

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Electric Boogaloo

Army Corps - We've got our electric barrier and we're confident that it is doing the job to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife  - What about this video that shows fish swimming past the electric barrier meant to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan?

LINK (Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)

We've Got Good News and Bad News

The Good News?

Surveys have found that overall, concentrations of arsenic, selenium, and mercury in Asian Carp from the lower Illinois River do not appear to be a health concern for a majority of human consumers.

The Bad News?

We've got Asian Carp.

LINK (The Fish Site)