CICERO — Wildlife officials already have DNA evidence that suggests the destructive Asian carp has made its way past Chicago-area electric fish barriers.
What they don’t have is any actual fish. If the weather allows, they’ll start searching Wednesday for the dreaded species.
Crews will focus on areas where warm water from industrial operations enters the waterways. Fish tend to congregate near the warmer water in the winter.
Workers will use commercial fishing nets and electrofishing to search over the next two to three weeks.
In December, officials discovered a single carp in a canal leading to Lake Michigan, the nearest the species has come to the
Great Lakes.
Environmentalists fear invasive carp could endanger the lakes’ $7 billion-a-year fishing industry
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