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Detroit News
Jun 24 2010
Michigan legislators are taking a multi-pronged approach to prompt federal authorities to act quickly in response to Wednesday's find of a live, 20-pound Asian carp in Lake Calumet near Chicago. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, said she is lobbying agency heads throughout Washington to get immediate action to keep the invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan, where environmental experts say the hungry fish could quickly wreck native fish populations. The carp, which have migrated northward through the Mississippi River since escaping from southern fish farms in the 1990s, have big appetites and the ability to quickly clean out food sources for native species. |
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