Why don't you submit the idea of a 15 foot net to Michigan and earn yourself $1 million? I am not kidding... That is what Michigan offering for solution to the problem. I am guessing that a 15 foot net would not stop them, or it would have already been installed and either someone claimed $1 million, or it has been tried and was not feasible...
http://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/2017/02/06/stop-asian-carp-earn-1-million.html<\p>
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/23/534105477/invasive-carp-caught-9-miles-from-great-lakes-in-cause-for-serious-concern
**In the eight years the group has monitored the Chicago Area Waterway system, it says this is only the second time a threatening species of Asian carp has been caught beyond the barriers. The first was a bighead carp caught in Lake Calumet in 2010.
For many onlookers, Thursday's catch presents cause for alarm. As Fisheries and Oceans Canada notes, the fish have significantly out-competed native species in the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and they threaten to have the same ecological impact in the Great Lakes.
"They are voracious eaters, able to consume 5 to 20 percent of their body weight each day, leaving far less of the microscopic plant and animal life (phytoplankton and zooplankton) to support native fishes," the agency says.
And that threat has been taken so seriously, millions of dollars have been spent on underwater barriers to keep them in check, according to public radio consortium Great Lakes Today.
"The news of an Asian carp found within nine miles of the Great Lakes is cause for serious concern," Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman said in a statement. "The fishing industry in the Great Lakes is a $7 billion a year economic engine and it would be severely threatened if Asian Carp are allowed into the Great Lakes."
They have also been found in a number area ponds that are not connected to waterways as this paper shows including Schiller Park Pond, Lincoln Park South Lagoon, Garfield Park Lagoon and several others...They maps in the paper shows there are numerous sightings...Not sure exactly how they get in those ponds and lagoons... http://www.asiancarp.us/documents/ACDistribution.pdf
They are a hideous ugly fish. If something is not done--fishing industry for 8 states and 2 Canadian provinces will be impacted. Ugh, who knows at some point, the Asian Carp may be what we are seeing on supermarket shelves as the darn things eat everything else so nothing survives but them :(