In 2009, Illinois poured 2,200 gallons of fish poison wrapped in red dye into a canal protecting Lake Michigan to block Asian carp from Lake Michigan; thousands of fish died, but crews found only one Asian carp |
Representative image of a canal treatment operation using red dye to track rotenone as crews worked to control invasive Asian carp. Image Credits: Chat GPT. In December 2009, Illinois took an extraordinary step to protect the Great Lakes from an invasive fish that had been moving through the waterways of the Mississippi River basin. During…
