Ohio state rep seeks to strengthen fight?

An article regarding the threat of Asian carp reaching the Lake Erie Shoreline.

Political with the upcoming elections. Debbie Stabenow U.S. Senator (D., Mi) lauds the Army Corps of Engineers for completing the barrier fence along 13 miles of the Des Plains River.

toledoblade.com -- The Blade ~ Toledo Ohio

More fencing erected!

Associated Press

11:47 a.m. CDT, October 29, 2010

CHICAGO — A wire mesh fence is now up between the Des Plaines River and a shipping canal in an effort to keep the invasive Asian carp out of the river in the event of flooding. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, environmental agencies and lawmakers marked the completion of the 13-mile-long barrier on Friday. 

Asian Carp Threaten Lake Erie Too!

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
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J05F701.htm

Site as Thesis
Map of the site of where the Asian Carp is approaching the Lake Michigan shoreline. This is not the final draft of the Map. It will continue to be added to and become a palimpsest of information layered by time.

Urban Ecologies of Aquatic Processes

 I’m concerned with the invasive species of Silver Carp that is on the threshold of arriving to the Lake Michigan shoreline. This includes the events that led to this.

In the 1830’s, the State of Illinois decided that in order to preserve the city of Chicago’s fresh water supply they would have to re-route the river systems from dumping into Lake Michigan. By January of 1900, the first River was reversed and connected to the Mississippi River by a series of Control Locks. Within a few more years, two more rivers were reversed and connect to the Mississippi. This has opened a shipping channel that now connects the Great Lakes to the Mississippi that generates $1.7 Billion/year. This is also allowing the silver carp and other invasive species a direct access to the Great Lakes and threatens the $7 Billion/year fishing and tourism industry of the Great Lake region.

I am situating a thesis within the ecological urbanism of aquaculture to explore a solution for the invasive fish dilemma and also to look into strategies for wastewater treatment and handling. Political issues will be noted and explored as assets or hindrances.

Artifacts to be explored are methods of representing water, aquatic systems, political agents, and the urban.

What is Aquatic Ecology?

Aquatic

–adjective 

1.

of, in, or pertaining to water.

2.

living or growing in water: aquatic plant life.

3.

taking place or practiced on or in water: aquatic sports.

Ecology

–noun

1.

the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.

2.

Also called human ecology. the branch of sociology concerned with the spacing and interdependence of people and institutions.

http://dictionary.reference.com

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