There’s a war happening on American waters!

Or at least that’s what it felt like when you took the boat out for a spin on the Mississippi - "survival of the fittest" make it feel that way.  

So it's probably time to brush up on your bow fishing skills.  

 If we don’t stop these cunning Asian Carp, we’ll be signing up for Great Lakes Adventures, a two-week crash course in becoming a water warrior, release forms required.

Oh Carp! Stop the Spread!

CHICAGO, April 29 (UPI) -- Asian carp may be more suitable for survival in the Great Lakes than previously thought, increasing the likelihood of damage to lake ecosystems, officials said.

While previous studies concluded Asian carp need plankton -- scarce in the southern end of Lake Michigan -- as a food source, new evidence says one Asian carp species can eat cladophora, an algae species found throughout the Great Lakes, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.

"I was getting tired of plankton, cladophora sounds kind of good!"

"It is worrisome," Leon Carl of the Midwest Area U.S. Geological Survey said. "If they can switch to cladophora then we got a problem because cladophora in the Great Lakes is extremely abundant."

Experts are now testing to determine whether this algae, regularly washing ashore and choking some of Lake Michigan's shorelines, has enough nutritional value to sustain the carp while they migrate up the shorelines toward the rivers in which they need to spawn, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said. 

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/04/29/Asian-carp-more-survivable-than-believed/UPI-48641304117150/#ixzz1LjYNnuwl