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Title: ASIAN CARP IN THE GREAT LAKES
Post by: 53andout on Jan 13, 2010, 05:58 PM

FILL THIS OUT AND SEND IT!


http://stopasiancarp.com/ (http://stopasiancarp.com/)

COME ON GUYS, TAKE 10 MINUTES AND LET THE SENATORS AND CONGRESSMAN KNOW YOUR POSITION. PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO LIVES IN THE GREAT LAKES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLFe8xfgx24&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLFe8xfgx24&feature=player_embedded)

Title: Re: ASIAN CARP IN THE GREAT LAKES
Post by: foxlakefishing on Jan 21, 2010, 11:54 AM

Here is a petition from ILLINOIS

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The Great Lakes are under threat from an Asian carp invasion that could wipe out fishing stocks, and with it, the lakes’ billion dollar fishery.There is concern that if carp make it into Lake Michigan, they will gobble up the plankton that native fish feed on. and could show up in local lakes surrounding the great lakes as well

these fish can, and will jump out of the water when they feel the vibrations of a motor boat
this can be very dangerous to boaters ,could you imagine being hit by a four foot carp while your traveling 25 to 4o mph .this could kill the recreational boating along the great lakes.

In December 2009, DNA testing found evidence that Asian carp were within a few miles of Lake Michigan, yet the locks which provide the carp with a direct path into Lake Michigan remain open.
Stop Asian Carp !  we all have to get together and make sure our Government shuts down  water ways that will allow the destructive Asian carp into lake Michigan , If this happens it will destroy the fishing and boating industries to all the surrounding states of the great lakes please help out by signing this petition  that will get sent to our federal government ! we have to stop the Asian carp invasion

SIGN PETITION

http://stopac.epetitions.net/ (http://stopac.epetitions.net/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLFe8xfgx24&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLFe8xfgx24&feature=player_embedded)

The Asian carp was found some 40 miles from Lake Michigan, which was the closest to the Great Lakes the species has been found

Silver carp and the Asian Bighead, which can grow to 5 feet and weigh more than 100 pounds (45 kg), have come to dominate sections of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Authorities fear that if the carp swim up to the Great Lakes, the largest fresh-water resource in the world, they could create an “ecological disaster” by consuming the bottom of the food chain and ruining the lakes’ $7 billion fishery.

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SIGN PETITION

http://stopac.epetitions.net/ (http://stopac.epetitions.net/)

Title: Re: ASIAN CARP IN THE GREAT LAKES
Post by: crappie66 on Jan 21, 2010, 03:55 PM

Closing the locks would have a big impact on the economy.  Nobody knows for sure what impact the asian carp would have in the lakes it is all speculation at this time.

Just remember that many commonly known Great Lakes fish, including chinook and coho salmon and rainbow trout, are actually non-native species that have been introduced to the lakes, some not intentionally.  The lakes did not suffer when this happened.