The Three Million Dollar Fish

Single Asian carp found in Chicago-area fish kill

msnbc article

LOCKPORT, Ill. - Environmental officials say they have found a single Asian carp in a canal leading to Lake Michigan--the closest any of the giant fish have come to the Great Lakes.

Environmentalists fear the Asian carp could starve out other fish and devastate the $7 billion-a-year Great Lakes fishing industry.

Department of Natural Resources assistant director John Rogner says the single fish was found Thursday among tens of thousands of other species scooped up during a kill operation in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

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