Newsflash: Study Says Young Asian Carp Could Bypass Electric Barrier

Without it, there’s no stopping them. With it, Asian Carp are striding confidently, taking care of business and displaying feats of stamina usually reserved for thoroughbreds.

So we’re guessing by now you’ve learned a thing or two about Asian Carp, thanks to Carp Czar John Gross, Notre Dame’s David Lodge and Wildlife Forever’s Doug Grann. You probably know that these fish are designed to out smart the Army Corps of Engineers and are poised to take over your local body of water.

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What you may not know, the Army Corps of Engineers has long contended that its $10 million electric barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that has prevented invasive, Asian Carp from getting into the Great Lakes, where many fear they could wreak environmental havoc.

But a year-old study finally released by the Corps on March 24 shows the barrier could indeed be breached by 2- to 3-inch-long baby bighead carp -- one of the breeds of Asian carp already proliferating in waterways linking the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan. This is a huge bummer!

Oh Carp! We’ve got to do everything we can to stop these carppy bastards!