Mississippi Attorney General

Letters: We don't need Asian carp jobs

Mr. Schuette, if I may. At the July 7 Asian carp meeting in Port Clinton, Ohio, Gen. John W. Peabody, director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said long-term permanent solutions will take "a generation or two to put into place" once studies are completed.

Also the Detroit Free Press just finished a six-part Asian carp series, running July 17-22, that featured a live chat/debate thing on July 20-21 with the experts that you might want to check that out. If you can find a real answer in that doubletalk (understatement) more power to you. A Freep reporter asked me if the chat was hard to follow? It was easy to follow, it was very hard to swallow the statements made. The series had some other interesting things in it like: Did you know it cost $20,000 a day just to run the barrier? 20. Thousand. Dollars. Per. Day.

It seems the Corps of Engineers is still trying to cast doubts on the environmental DNA project which shows more carp DNA past the barrier, by saying they've “only found one fish"

I submit David Jude only found one goby in 1990. In Bath, Ill., at first they only found one Asian carp. Now it's very hard not to find one!

The marketing of Asian carp was covered in the Free Press series — carp jobs! Duane Chapman, a leading Asian carp expert with the U.S. Geological Survey, said the government was reluctant because “it's dangerous to support industries built around invasive species." He's very right there. For the jobs to continue, they have to have wild Asian carp and they can't harvest them until they get big enough to have some meat, so little ones are safe.

But does an industry built around invasive species sound familiar? It should, the Michigan salmon fishery is built around the alewives. Without alewives there is no salmon industry. In order to keep/protect the alewives we all have to sacrifice the native fish, keep them at depleted levels.

Even if there was no Asian carp, or other invasives Michigan would still have to keep the alewives to keep the salmon. So, we can never not have an invasive species problem, never have a healthy zooplankton population. Our native fish will always have a problem spawning in the alewives etc.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has worked very hard over the last 25 years trying to make sure we don't find that out, now you know.

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

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