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Searching for Asian carp in Lake Erie
Six of 417 samples showed DNA from the invasive species
by WKSU's KABIR BHATIA


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The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is shocking fish in Lake Erie next week in an effort to find Asian carp, after the species’ DNA turned up in small fraction of samples collected last summer. WKSU' Kabir Bhatia reports on the latest effort to track down the invasive species.
Searching for Asian carp in Lake Erie

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The department is searching primarily in Sandusky Bay, and north Maumee Bay in Michigan, after six of 417 samples included genetic materials from bighead and silver carp. That does not confirm the presence of the actual fish in Lake Erie. But Ohio and other Great Lakes states fear the carp will breech from the Mississippi River basin into the lakes, where they’ll crowd out native species.

Ohio Department of Natural Resources spokesman Rich Carter says the search for DNA began last month. Now researchers are planning to net actual fish to identify them.

“We’ll be doing a technique called electrofishing, which is introducing a mild electrical current into the water that stuns fish. The purpose here is to try and focus this physical sampling on areas, like the rivers, where if these fish were attempting to spawn, this is where they might be.”

Results from this round of testing are expected in five weeks, after which Ohio and Michigan will work with the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service to control the species.

 
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