AMERICA - Great Lakes Environment Update

"An Old Fashioned Strategy to Keep Asian Carp at Bay in the Great Lakes: Eat Them" PBS Newshour 7/26/2012

Excerpt

SUMMARY: To keep Asian carp, an invasive species, from taking over in the Great Lakes, scientists and fishermen are employing an simple strategy: Catch them and eat them. But they have found that there are some pragmatic issues -- as well as marketing issues -- to overcome. Ash-har Quraishi of WTTW Chicago reports.

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Now an update on an important fishing story in the Great Lakes region.

We have chronicled the problems that a particularly invasive species, Asian carp, have posed for the past few years. But now scientists are thinking it may be time to come up with a new solution.