Chinese carp
Great Lakes is the largest source of fresh water in the world, has a heated conflict broke out recently about their safety. One side stands supernatural powers includes North America, and includes this aspect of US and Canadian governments, and the US military, and the governors of eight US states and two vehicles belonging to the US Senate, in addition to the US Supreme Court
On the opposite side of the conflict, there is no there is only a single fish. However, it outweighed the fish, and won in this unequal conflict.
Environmental experts warn of an environmental catastrophe in these lakes, which is the source of the river Asian carp, a kind of soft fish excessive gorging on food, which is about Osrabha to invade Lake Michigan, and is located about only a few miles. If these fish arrived at the lake, it will have the potential to spread throughout the Great Lakes more broadly, and wreak havoc on the already fragile ecological its system, this will involve the sectors of fishing and recreation in the region, who depend on them millions of jobs, and has for the two capital $ 7 billion.
Said David Ulrich, one of those responsible for saving the Great Lakes and the cities of Saint Lawrence County Initiative, which represents 70 coastal city in the United States and Canada, and has a population of 13 million people: «These fish pose significant threats, and the Americans started now discovering the magnitude of this imminent danger. »
The Asian carp has been introduced in the beginning of China to the southern US states, in the seventies of the last century, in order to help clean the water tanks in the US fish farms there. These fish have been able to escape from the reservoirs, because of its ability hacks to jump, and for more than 30 years has been making its way firmly towards the top of the Mississippi River, omnivorous in the way of food, and an updated mass in the home of local fish. In December last year have been found to fish carp DNA in place is only a few miles from the Great Lakes outside Chicago, a discovery that Ulrich and described him as a great shock to all.
In spite of these Asian fish live on algae and aquatic plankton live, but it is considered as a pesticide neighborhood to the world of fish. The typical length of up to 4 feet tall, and weighs 110 to pounds, and devour in one day of food is comparable to 40% by weight. Through swallowed a great deal of plankton and algae from the water inside, they deprive young local varieties of fish from the main source of their diet, leading to shrinking their numbers gradually, and exposed the ultimate danger of extinction.
If we continue with the course of the Great Lakes and beyond, it will look like the damage in Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and clearly visible. These heavy shade visiting creatures offered local fish to starve, so that out of every 10 local fish spend, it is responsible for the deaths of nine of them.
Environmentalists fear that if established its presence in the Great Lakes, you will experience the fate of those lakes dismal, they are considered in all cases subject to risks, due to the fragile environment, which was formed at the end of the ice age, when glaciers began to ebb before 10,000 years. This is comparable in biological terms of time glimpse of an eye. The show that emerging invasive attacks over the years ecosystem.
An additional danger, the silver carp kind of Asian fish has the ability to jump in the air to a height of two meters, and this is what you are doing these fish, when hearing the noise vibrations of the speed boats passing through the place. Such acrobatics it will take if it were not familiar risky. Experts point out that when these fish jaws strong endanger human to loss of consciousness, and perhaps drowning, if Arttma it.
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