They've installed a fence almost 1,200 feet long in an Indian Marsh. The fence is 8 feet tall and made of chain-link fencing. It was completed Tuesday October 19, 2010 at Eagle Marsh near Fort Wayne. It is bolstered by about 120 concrete barriers. It's designed to prevent adult carp from using the northwestern Indiana marsh to swim from the Wabash River system into the Maumee River and then onto Lake Erie during floods. Biologists fear that if the carp reach the Great Lakes they could destroy it's $7 billion/yr fishing industry by starving out native species.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 21, 2010, 11:09AM ET
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