A team from the Ministry of Fisheries of Canada patrols the Grand -River, not far from Lake Eri in search of invasive carp.
Finally, something to unite President Donald Trump, his democratic opponents and Canadians, whom he threatens in the application: fiercely hungry carp.
Invasive carp, sometimes called Asian carp, was introduced in the United States in the 1970s. And they never ceased to spread – and eat everything in their path – since then.
“They eat cars,” Trisia said Tugade, a water biologist from Canada, the carp program, since she and her team glided along the Great River – an influx on Lake Eri – to look at the fish that the experts are afraid of.
Since they can eat 40% of their body weight per day, invasive carps were originally considered as an instrument for monitoring algae troubles in limited areas, such as ponds for aquaculture.
But they probably escaped during the flood and made their way to the north, including through the Illinois River. This raised the ghost of the destructive pier based on the Great Lakes, the world's largest freshwater system in the surface of the surface.
“I haven’t seen anything that scares ecologists more than to look at what effects would be influenced if the types of Asian carp located in the Illinois River will fall into the great lakes and form AFP,” said Mike Srieberg, a water policy expert at the University of Michigan.
This is a threat that attracted Trump's attention, who calls the fish “threat” and specialists on both sides of the border.
Shock processing
Every year Canadian experts are looking for carp in tributaries of great lakes, which are considered favorable for spawning and feeding – often herbaceous areas with warmer ones, Small waterField
In the Grand -River Tugaade and senior biologist Alex Price watched the electrophication mission.
The Canadian government team evaluates the fish caught during the search for invasive carp in the Ontario Big River.
The team lowered two rods into the water, which released non -lethal pulsating charges, stunning the fish and allowing them to bring with nets to the tank on board.
The fish was identified, measured and, if not considered invasive, brought into dirty water.
Since the launch of the program in 2012, only a few dozen invasive carps have been captured in Canadian waters.
James Hall, whose sports fishing Hall'emin takes customers on Lake Eri, told AFP that he was one of the first to catch him.
“I was wondering what it was, but I knew that it was something else,” he said, describing the moment when he pulled the carp ten years ago.
Hall said that he laid fish on ice and called the state hot line of the carp.
The invasive carp “was very rare to catch what was great,” said Price, while insisting that vigilance was necessary, given the seriousness of the threat.
“They can breed several times a year and produce hundreds of thousands of eggs in one event,” he said AFP.
“During the first year of life, they can be too large for our Natural predators There is, ”he added.
A member of the Canadian program of invasive carp is working on a Grand -River, not far from Lake Eri.
Broken?
Srieberg described the great lakes as “great martial workers” in American political parties and between Canada and the United States.
Protecting them from Invasive species He was a bicopartican priority in the States on their shores, some of which were historically voting states of electoral swing, such as Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, ”he said.
Trump’s White House memorandum, confirming his support for efforts against the “economic and environmental threat of invasive carp”, brought praise compared to praise.
“We are in the most politically controversial times that I have seen in my life,” Srieberg said, calling Trump’s “quiet” Trump's “quiet” Trump’s memorandum confirmation of the rare bicepartian nature of the policy of great lakes.
But this path forward is unclear.
Trump’s trade war and the threat of annexation strained the relations of the USA-Canada. Earlier this year, the president was reported, told the former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that he wants to revise agreements governing the Great Lakes.
Srieberg noted that the joint administration of the waterway determined relations with Canada, but said: “The hostility of the Trump administration in relation to Canada … threatens to defeat it.”
If the battle with an invasive carp failed, the consequences would be both terrible and unpredictable, he added.
“This would cause sharp changes in the ecological balance of water,” said Srieberg.
And if they ever became based on the great lakes, “I do not believe that you will have a chance to actually eliminate the population,” he said.
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