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Researchers from the University of Notre Dame announced Thursday they found no evidence of Asian carp in their environmental DNA sampling of Indiana ports and harbors near Lake Michigan.

To support the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ plan to conduct intensive fish sampling efforts in the Lockport Pool, the U.S. Coast Guard expects to impose periodic waterway restrictions on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Today members of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee are briefing Great Lakes states about their progress in stopping the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes.

Officials Meet with Great Lakes Governors to discuss progress in implementing the Administration’s coordinated strategy for preventing invasive Asian carp from establishing populations in the Great Lakes.

Continuing the Obama Administration’s proactive response to the threat that Asian carp poses to the Great Lakes, the Council on Environmental Quality today announced the appointment of John Goss as the Asian Carp Director.

The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee announces periodic waterway closures on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal each day from October 4 through October 8.

On August 9, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service organized a site visit and boat tour of a section the Illinois River near Starved Rock State Park at the request of U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson (D-IL-11).

A six-year-old bighead carp that was caught in the waters of Lake Calumet just outside Lake Michigan in late June may have lived nearly its entire life in waters of Great Lakes origin according to tests and analysis conducted by Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has been investigating various locations in Ohio and assessing scenarios in which the aquatic invasive species, Silver carp and Bighead carp ("Asian carp"), could possibly migrate into the Lake Erie Basin from the Ohio River Basin via natural and man-made waterways in Ohio.