Experts Seek Asian Carp Gateways to Great Lakes

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Not quite 5 miles long, Jerome Creek winds through farmland and Pleasant Prairie, Wis., about 35 miles south of Milwaukee. In some places, it's narrow enough to jump across. It fish population consists mostly of minnows.

Yet this unremarkable stream could be an ecological time bomb, for it's a crucial link in a chain of waterways hundreds of miles long that connects Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. Experts said the creek might be a doorway through which invasive species - including the much-maligned Asian carp - will slip between the Mississippi drainage basins and the Great Lakes.

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Experts Seek Asian Carp Gateways to Great Lakes

In recent years, the battle to prevent the plankton-gobbling carp from entering the Great Lakes and disrupting their $7 billion fishing industry has focused on the Chicago area, where a shipping canal forms what some call a "superhighway"...

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