Posted: 10.06.2010

The Canadian government is joining the fight to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes and decimating its fish populations.

Canada's fisheries and oceans ministry has announced an
18-month research program to assess the dangers that bighead and
silver carp pose to the lakes. The project will involve scientists in the U.S. as well as
Canada.

The Great Lakes Fisheries Commission says it's the first
binational effort to determine the likelihood that Asian carp will
spread across the lakes, and how the ecosystem will be affected if
that happens.

Asian carp have migrated northward in the Mississippi and
Illinois rivers for decades and are threatening to enter Lake
Michigan through Chicago-area waterways.
 

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