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Submariner

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6. Don't worry, the Asian Carp takeover of the Great Lakes

Thu Jun 14, 2012, 12:24 PM

Jun 2012

will push that Mussel out of the headlines soon enough when they get established in the Great Lakes over the next decade, or so. A couple of years ago fish managed to penetrate an underwater electric fence that connects Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River by a canal. When enough breeders get through, it will be curtains for the native fishes.

But on the bright side, Carp Sushi restaurants will probably ring the Lakes.

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And it'll be cleaner, too - all that filtration! hatrack Jun 2012 #12