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  1. Sounds like a good 'fish fry' to me!!!
  2. Hopefully Obammie's Green Energy Czar won't determine that the increase in electricity is being wasted and order the voltage be reduced (to save the planet). Perhaps the Carp Czar has more pull these days?
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  4. Does anybody doubt these guys will fail?
  5. Kudos to the Army Corps for overcoming the technical hurdles and engineering a system that will effectively stop the migration of Asian Carp while keeping our nation's strategic waterways open to recreational and commercial watercraft.

    While Illinois and Indiana have partnered with the Army Corp to address the invasive species issue, the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania have only created an adversarial relationship and have done absolutely nothing constructive in resolving the Asian Carp issue. Those states suing Illinois and the Army Corps are now more part of the problem rather than part of the solution and, while vilifying Illinois for not severing their waterways, Wisconsin and Minnesota sat by and did nothing while Asian Carp moved into their own rivers. Now we are paying the price and wishing we had followed Illinois example. Too bad! Hopefully we have learned a lesson and will stop pursuing frivolous law suits and start cooperating with those who are actually addressing the Asian Carp issue.
  6. The Great Lakes have been constantly threatened by invasive species, one of the most well known being the zebra muscle. The Asian Carp is yet another one of these invasive species, threatening the natural ecosystem by uprooting plants and kicking up plenty of sand, blocking sun. And due to the characteristic living of the Asian Carp (hardly every taking bait and getting caught in nets), it's difficult to know if a population is growing in the Great Lakes until it has become a very prominent problem.
    It's very encouraging to see that an active effort is being continued against new threatening species when we know the threats and the immanence, unlike the invasion of zebra muscles, when we had little to no knowledge of their spread and effect of the ecosystem. I fully support the maintenance and the powering-up of the barrier to keep the Asian Carp out, as long as the Great Lakes are not affected more by an unknown side-effect of the barrier.
  7. I'm all for closing the SAG channel, mainly because Illinois is gearing up to keep the Asian Carp, (carp jobs)basing an industry on something that isn't even supposed to exist, is not a good idea. Yes it gets rid of some, but for those jobs to continue, the asian carp have to continue. From the lake or ecosystem standpoint no invasive species has any value, giving any invasive species value, is counter productive to removing or fighting invasive species. As far as zebra/quagga mussels are concerned, (100 trillion last count) native Perch feed heavily on them. I submit salmon were planted to take advantage of the abundant food source (alewives 90% at the time) we now have a very adundant food source (mussels) Perch retain the least amount of PCB of any fish in the great lakes, and is one of the most sought after fish in the great lakes. Restoring Perch numbers can only reduce the current invasive species we have now, and create more interest in the outdoors.
  8. WALRANGER5 - Yes, the Perch feed on the quagga mussels, but studies show that the amount of quagga mussels are continuing to grow.
    The quagga mussels are still removing large amounts of plankton from the waters and restricting the growth of other native species.

    Each time a possible solution is found, there are innumerable amounts of factors which could affect the success of retaining the diversity of the Great Lakes' species. Yes, increasing the number of Perch in the Great Lakes may eventually begin to reduce the amount of zebra/quagga mussels, but then something else will happen where, for example, there will be too many Perch and not enough mussels. If the economy around the Great Lakes becomes overly dependent on the Perch, it would surely take a dive at some point when there are less amounts of Perch. Again, the odds of any plan working are almost un-calcuable.


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