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...for the Great Lakes carp derby.
Trump administration halts work to prevent carp chaos in Great Lakes
As juvenile invasive carp were found in an Illinois tributary closer than ever before seen to Lake Michigan, work on a barrier system to keep the potentially fishery-wrecking invaders out of the Great Lakes has been stopped by the Trump administration.
The $1.15 billion Brandon Road Interbasin Project is a planned multilayered defense system at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in Joliet, Illinois, about 40 miles southwest of Lake Michigan. Using electric, acoustic and bubble deterrents, the project — a partnership among the federal government, Illinois and Michigan — aims to protect the Great Lakes from bighead and silver carp and other invasive species that could potentially harm the more than $5.1 billion Great Lakes fishery.msn.com - Trump administration halts work to prevent carp chaos in great lakesOf course, the simple, sure, and obvious, way to keep the carp out of the Great Lakes is to close the locks in the river, permanently. That was proposed, decades ago, but closing the locks would hurt someone's profits. I remember when a "bubble barrier" was tried to keep sharks out of a swimming beach. The sharks liked to swim through the bubbles.
Steve
