The Illinois Division of Pure Assets (IDNR) and the Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ICRCC) have introduced the removing of a silver carp from Lake Calumet. The lake is a part of the Chicago Space Waterway and is roughly seven miles from Lake Michigan.
The fish was captured Thursday, August 4th, through the use of gill nets and electro-fishing crews from the IDNR and U.S. Military Corps of Engineers. This was prompted by a reported sighting of an invasive carp by a member of the general public earlier that week. The carp was 38.3Â inches in size and weighed roughly 22 kilos.
Because of the seize of the carp, a response effort within the space of the captured fish has been triggered. That is to find out whether or not further invasive carp could possibly be current in Lake Calumet. IDNR states that’s necessary to notice that the seize of this silver carp doesn’t imply they’re established in Lake Calumet. That this doesn’t point out {that a} reproducing inhabitants of invasive carp exists above the electrical dispersal boundaries or inside the Nice Lakes.
That is the third time an invasive bighead or silver carp has been captured above the electrical dispersal boundaries since 2010. One of many different two occurrences occurred in 2017 when a silver carp was captured within the Chicago Space Waterway System beneath T.J. O’Brien Lock and Dam. And the opposite was an invasive bighead carp captured in Lake Calumet in 2010.
The IDNR and the ICRCC are dedicated to holding the general public knowledgeable and can replace as quickly as they’ll once they study extra in regards to the captured silver carp. There will likely be continued sampling efforts in Lake Calumet and the Chicago Space Waterway Programs to maintain checking for different potential silver carp and bighead carp making it handed the electrical dispersal boundaries.
Extra data on efforts to regulate invasive carp and on the Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee will be discovered at https://invasivecarp.us/.
