These animals, if they begin to thrive in the Great Lakes, may ravage fisheries valued at $7 billion per year. Also, some boaters …show more content…
. . there are opportunities to prevent Asian carp from moving into new watersheds.” Currently, the Asian carp are being kept from migrating to Lake Michigan by using an electrical barrier system to repel the fish. However, this is a temporary fix, and scientists from the Great Lakes Commission are considering separating the watersheds between the lakes. The fish also are traveling through the Grand Lake St. Mary’s and the Erie Canal. These waterways will be monitored by using environmental DNA samples to know the population of the carp. The samples are taken from the water to view what fish have left behind to discover what fish are living in the