TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- White House Council on Environmental Quality Asian Carp Director John Goss was in Traverse City Thursday discussing the Administration’s Asian Carp Control Strategy.
“It’s a very serious threat, but in this unique situation we are ahead of the establishment of a new environmental species. We do have the opportunity…to come up with a good long term solution,” Goss said.
The meeting, hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, offered the public an opportunity to comment on the Corps’ Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study, also known as GLIMRIS.
“The purpose of the interbasin study is to look at a long term strategy to look at the prevention of spread of all aquatic invasive species. Asian Carp are serious now but we’re also looking at maybe five to ten years from now. What will be the next Asian Carp?” GLIMRIS Director Dave Wethington said.
The study focuses on Chicago waterways that connect to Lake Michigan.
