"While it is certainly concerning that we have captured this large number of invasive carp in Pool 6, it is likely that these adult fish moved upstream from other locations and were not the result of reproduction in Minnesota waters."
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State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish. Over the last five years, agencies have worked to capture invasive carp in Lake Erie and the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and implant them with transmitters. Floating receivers powered by the sun send real-time notifications when a tagged carp swims past. Agency workers and commercial anglers then target those areas for carp round-ups. The strategy has helped to nearly double the annual poundage of carp removed from the Mississippi in the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities area alone.
State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish. Over the last five years, agencies have worked to capture invasive carp in Lake Erie and the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and implant them with transmitters. Floating receivers powered by the sun send real-time notifications when a tagged carp swims past. Agency workers and commercial anglers then target those areas for carp round-ups. The strategy has helped to nearly double the annual poundage of carp removed from the Mississippi in the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities area alone.