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Fish Poisoning Set for This Week
Produced by City Room on Monday, November 30, 2009
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(AP/File) |
Government officials plan to exterminate all fish living in a five mile stretch of a western suburban canal this week. The million-dollar plan is a last-ditch effort to prevent Asian carp from getting any closer to the Great Lakes.
Thom Cmar is an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He says the plan to poison the fish may be too late.
CMAR: We support that as the lesser of evils. Nobody wants to see 200-thousand pounds of dead fish hauled out of the water, but in this case, the alternative is far worse.
Scientists already discovered DNA from the invasive carp north of the existing barrier in October.
Cmar says he thinks the solution is placing permanent barriers between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan.
The barge industry says that move would cost consumers and heavy industry millions of dollars.
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