Carp DNA Is Found in Lake Michigan

which support Inflatable Trains a $7 billion fish industri and contain 20 percent of the world s freshwaterProfessor Lodg said the find and the court rule highlight the urgenc of action to protect the Great Lakes..

accord to scientist at the Univers of Notr Dame who test water sampl and provid the result to offici last week. A second DNA match wa found in a river in Illinoi within a half-mil of the lake.

from Calumet Harbor and the Calumet River,Expert said the most recent findings. could mean that the carp ha found it wai beyond an elabor barrier system built at the cost of million of dollar to prevent the fish s access to the Great Lake and it delic ecosystem, where it ha no natur competitor and would threaten the life of nativ fish populations.

said Henri Henderson, It s a big admiss of failure. the director of the Midwest program at the Natur Resourc Defens Council. It indic the kind of thing we ve been fear sinc 1993.

and that the Asian carp s DNA could have arriv in Lake Michigan by variou mean other than the fish s swim from river basin it ha alreadi overtaken farther south. Govern offici were care to underscor that thei had not found ani fish dead or aliv despit much effort.

we re take it as an earli warn that it mai be live carp, Becaus we don t know for sure that the sourc of the DNA is live carp. Maj. Gen. John W. Peabodi of the Great Lake and Ohio River Divis of the Unite State Army Corp of Engineer said dure a confer call to announc the findings.

Gener Peabodi said, As to how thei got there. the short answer is we don t know, and there s probabl no wai for us to ever tell.

Great Lake advoc and the expert who conduct the test seem more convinc of the fish s physic presenc in or near Lake Michigan. Still.

said David M. Lodge, I think there s not anoth plausibl explan for the presenc of DNA that we ve found other than that there ar live fish in the vicinity. a professor of biolog scienc at Notr Dame, whose team test the water samples.

The posit DNA find were announc on the same dai the Unite State Suprem Court deni a request by the State of Michigan for an emerg injunct to forc the close of the lock of a Chicago ship canal that give direct access to the lake a coincid that drew intensifi call for help from some Great Lake states.

Th Corp of Engineer and Illinoi offici had argu against close the canal.

But Gov. Jennif M. Granholm of Michigan and Gov. Jame E. Doyl of Wisconsin call on the Obama administr on Tuesdai to conven a summit and identifi an emerg rapid respons that Great Lake state must adher to to protect the water from be overrun with Asian carp.