Feds oppose closing locks to stop Asian carp

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Associated Press

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The Obama administration Tuesday opposed Michigan and other states that want to close shipping locks near Chicago to prevent ravenous Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.

Solicitor General Elena Kagan told the U.S. Supreme Court that heeding the states' request would endanger public safety while disrupting cargo and passenger vessel traffic.

While acknowledging the carp pose a threat to the lakes and their $7 billion fishery, Kagan said it was unclear that closing the locks immediately was necessary to keep them out.

"In a host of ways, the federal government has demonstrated its commitment to protecting the Great Lakes from the expansion of Asian carp," she said in a written memo. "Nothing in federal law warrants second-guessing its expert judgment that the best information available today does not yet justify the dramatic steps Michigan demands."

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[WriteDown]

1. Asian Carp, it's what's for dinner. nt

[YOY]

3. Carp are junkfish.

Not really easily edible.

[WriteDown]

4. When that's all there is....

that's what you eat. :).

[HereSince1628]

7. You don't remember this from 2006?

SPRINGFIELD — Asian carp clogging Illinois rivers could be used to feed inmates and the starving under a proposal being championed by one lawmaker.

Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline, called on his fellow lawmakers Friday to earmark $750,000 in state funds to market the voracious, non-native species that can grow up to 100 pounds and crowd out other fish.

“At the end of the day, I think this is going to be a way for us to turn a really terrible problem into a really positive solution,” he said

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Actually carp are edible. The European carp that plagued American freshwater sport fisheries for the last century was introduced because it IS an edible fish.

Strange but true.

[MidwestRick]

9. They aren't bad

when smoked. At least that's how we prepared them when pulling them out of the Detroit River years ago.

[truebrit71]

2. WTF??

They threaten a $7 Billion fishery but they DON'T want to do everything they can to STOP the destruction?

:wtf:

[LiberalFighter]

5. Tell Elena Kagan to go suck a carp

[pansypoo53219]

6. fucking retarded.

how much has bilge water shit cost? i am sure we would have preferred to keep the zebra mussel out. humans are SO STUPID. fuck commerce.

[SpartanDem]

8. stupid