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Summit on Asian carp today at SVSU (The Saginaw News)
Mar 15 2010

The state attorney general and a Great Lakes Bay Region congressman will host a summit today on the threat of the Asian carp to the Great Lakes. The event begins at 11 a.m. in seminar rooms D & E...

Camp urges closure of Chicago locks to prevent Asian carp invasion (The Saginaw News)
Mar 15 2010

U.S. Rep. Dave Camp called for the immediate closure of Chicago area locks to prevent the threat of the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. Camp and state Attorney General Mike Cox organized a town hall summit today...

Feral swine seminar planned at North Midland Family Center on Thursday (Midland Daily News)
Mar 15 2010

They might be called the “Asian carp of the forest,” spreading widely, reproducing prolifically and rampaging through new ecosystems. But feral swine are different from the controversial invasive alien fish in one big way: They’re here, in Midland County.

Asian carp prove elusive in Chicago canals (UPI)
Mar 15 2010

CHICAGO, March 15 (UPI) -- Federal officials say fishery crews have not caught any Asian carp in the Chicago canal system but it is still important to target the invasive species.

Asian carp search turns up nothing (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Mar 15 2010

Fishery crews have spent the past month chasing Asian carp with nets and fish-shocking tools on the Chicago canal system near Lake Michigan. They've landed zero Asian carp.

Business hopes Asian carp a net gain (Jacksonville Journal-Courier)
Mar 15 2010

PEARL — Big River Fish Corp. in Pearl and fishermen from the area are doing their part to make use of the overabundance of Asian carp in both the Illinois and Mississippi rivers.Big River Fish is purchasing Asian carp from fishermen and...

Keep carp out without impacting industry (The Columbia Chronicle)
Mar 15 2010

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is under intense scrutiny from six Great Lakes states and various environmental groups that are urging the closure of major Chicago waterways due to the possible infiltration of Asian carp in Lake Michigan. The closure of the navigational locks has been avoided because of the strain some Chicagoans and Illinois [...]

Business hopes to sell invasive carp to Asians (The Telegraph)
Mar 14 2010

PEARL - Big River Fish Corp. in Pearl and area fishermen are doing their part to make use of the overabundance of Asian carp in both the Illinois and Mississippi rivers.

Macomb County news briefs: Comic wins national award (Detroit Free Press)
Mar 14 2010

A Sterling Heights man and a Waterford company have become the first individual and business from Michigan to win Spotlight Awards for their work in the entertainment industry from Event Solutions, a professional magazine for event planners and vendors.

Preserving clean water is his world (Post-Tribune)
Mar 14 2010

"Travel 1,000 miles by train and you are a brute; pedal 500 on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle 100 in a canoe and you are already a child of nature." -- Pierre Elliott Trudeau Dan Plath, 34, has lived in Indiana and Illinois his entire life, but I had a sneaking suspicion his people originally were from north of this neck of the woods. He pronounces words such as "about ...