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Bulging costs cloud carp plan outlook as threat to Great Lakes continues

Filling the current lock at Brandon Road would prevent invasive silver and bighead carp from entering the Great Lakes. The author wonders how costly and effective that would have been compared to the current and uncompleted billion-dollar plan. (Photo courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

It’s nearly unanimous.
Invasive Asian carp shouldn’t have ever been allowed to be imported into the United States. Once they were imported, safeguards should have been in place to make sure they couldn’t escape. Sadly, now that they’ve escaped, something needs to be done to curb their expansion.
Something must be done! The problem is that the word “something” seems to have different meanings.

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