Newsroom

The first round of environmental DNA sampling in 2012 was collected on May 22nd. Samples were collected from Lake Calumet and Little Calumet River. The monitoring results included 17 positives for silver carp (14 from Lake Calumet, 3 from Little Calumet River). Zero positives for bighead carp were found.

As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to protecting the Great Lakes from Asian carp and other invasive species, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it will provide Congress and the public the opportunity to identify a potential permanent Asian carp solution in 2013, much earlier than expected.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released May 1 the “Commercial Fisheries Baseline Economic Assessment - U.S. Waters of the Great Lakes, Upper Mississippi River, and Ohio River Basins”, an Interim Product of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study.

Bighead carp and silver carp invaded the Illinois River waterway over a decade ago. Populations of these fishes have grown dense in the lower and middle Illinois River and both species are approaching the Chicago Area Waterway System and the defensive electrical barrier.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released today April 18 the final Inventory of Available Controls for Aquatic Nuisance Species of Concern – Chicago Area Waterway System, an Interim Product of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study.

White House Council on Environmental Quality Asian Carp Director John Goss led a public meeting of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee on Thursday, April 5, 2012, at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Bloomington, Minnesota, to discuss the proactive efforts of the Obama Administration and the Great Lakes states to prevent Asian carp from establishing a self-sustaining population in the Great Lakes.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday publication in the Federal Register of a final rule for standards for living organisms in ships' ballast water discharged into waters of the United States.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday publication in the Federal Register of a final rule for standards for living organisms in ships' ballast water discharged into waters of the United States.

Members of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee released March 15 the first interim report of the Asian Carp Environmental DNA Calibration Study.