Feds pass on surest solution to Asian carp advance
Bighead and silver carp — both native to Asia — have been migrating toward the [Great Lakes] since escaping from Deep South fish ponds and sewage treatment plants in the 1970s. The biggest can reach 100 pounds and 4 feet long, consuming up to 40 percent of their body weight daily in plankton, the base of the aquatic food chain. Once established in the lakes, the carp could starve out the prey fish on which popular species such as salmon and whitefish depend.
The carp have already infested parts of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, driving away many native fish.
Silver carp are known to hurtle from the water at the sound of passing motors and slam into boaters with bone-breaking force.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_asian_carp_great_lakes
Let me get this straight... not only does the migration of asian Carp pose a threat to the Great Lakes' ecosystem and the region's fishing economy... but boaters could risk injury from flying Carp, too?
Holy carp.
Mark (& Cindi) 
