"In the contentious discussions over what to do about Asian carp, facts and science are often distorted, or even completely ignored."

"Rebekah Anderson, a biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, had just dropped her phone in the water. There was no real chance of recovering it, but she and Ronnie Brown were peering down, wondering if it could be salvaged, when Brown saw a fish laying in their net close to the surface.

“Is that an Asian carp?” Anderson remembers him asking. Her mind raced in response. “Oh my gosh — that’s an Asian carp,” she recalls thinking. “Where are we? This is a really big deal.”

They hauled the fish aboard and put it on ice."

Tyler J. Kelley reports for UnDark June 25, 2018. [2]