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Fish Fence is a Shocking Failure: Is it time to zip up the Great Lakes?

September 7, 2009

Posted by Henry Henderson in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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asiancarp, greatlakes, illinois, illinoisriver, invasivespecies, lakemichigan, mississippiriver

The story of the slow-motion effort to prevent invasive giant Asian carp from infiltrating and destroying the Great Lakes ecosystem is, frankly, embarrassing and pitiful. We’ve known for years that these giant voracious fish were released into the Mississippi...continued

Henry Henderson
Henry Henderson
Director, Midwest Program NRDC
Chicago, Illinois
I was born in Granite City, Illinois, a steel town where the coke plant sits...
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