Foundation Gives $500K For Anti-Carp Efforts
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Great Lakes Commission to help it find ways to prevent invasive Asian carp from entering the lakes.
The Flint-based foundation says it hopes the grant will help protect the Great Lakes region's $7 billion annual sport fishing industry.
The foundation says a team led by the Great Lakes Commission and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative will seek ``the best economic and environmental solutions'' for keeping nonnative species from entering the Great Lakes through Chicago's canals.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania are asking a federal judge in Chicago to take emergency action to close two shipping locks and install barriers against the carp.
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