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Asian carp advance on Chicago: The invaders

economist.com
Dec. 30, 2009
Desperate efforts to keep a piscine predator from the Great LakesTHEY came to America in the 1970s, where they were employed to eat up algae in the fish farms of Arkansas. Before long, however, they had found their way to the vast Mississippi River basin. Gobbling plankton and spawning fast, they...
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