American, Canadian ‘food machine’ united in fighting carp

Finally, President Donald Trump, something to threaten to unite his democratic opponents and Canadian citizens: a great hunger car.

The invasive carp, sometimes known as the Asian Corp, was introduced in the United States in the 1970s. And they never stopped spreading – and ate everything in their way.

“They are eating machines,” said Teresia Togade, a waterist of Canada’s invasive carp program, “when he and his team were found with a Grand River, a lake with aid.

Since they can eat 40 % of their body weight daily, the invasive carps was seen as a tool to control disturbing algae in limited areas like a water agriculture ponds.

But they escaped, probably. During the floods, and the river Illinois, along the north, went to the north. It has increased the view of the devastating eater, who sets itself in great lakes, which is the world’s largest sweet water system in terms of surface area.

“I have never seen environmentalists more afraid to see that if the Asian carp species that are in the River Illinois are more afraid,” said Mike Shriberg, a great leaks water policy expert at the University of Michigan.

This is a threat that has gained Trump’s attention, calling fish “danger” and experts from both sides of the border.

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Every year, Canadian experts look for a car in great lakes that are considered conducive to speaking and feeding.

In the Grand River, Togid and Senior Biology Alex Price oversee the electro -fishing mission.

The team lowered two bars in the water, which issued non -fatal plasting charges, surprised the fish and allowed them to bring them with nets in the tank.

The fish were identified, measured and – if not considered invasive – mixed with mud water.

Since the launch of the program in 2012, only a few dozen invasive carps have been caught in Canadian waters.

James Hall, whose hallman’s sports fashing business takes customers to Eri Lake, told AFP that he was one of the first catching people.

He said, “I was wondering what it was, but I knew it was something different.”

The hall said he kept the fish on the snow and called the government’s carp hotline.

The Price said, there is rarely to catch the “invasive carp”, which is very good, “the vigilance is necessary to look at the attractiveness of this danger.

“They can raise many times a year and produce hundreds of thousands of eggs in the same program,” he told AFP.

“Within the first year of life, they can be too big to eat our natural hunters,” he added.

Blowed?

Shriberg described the great lakes as “great units” between American political parties and Canada and the United States.

He said that his defense against invasive species has been a bilateral priority in the states on their beaches, many of which are historically the US electoral swing states such as Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Trump’s May White House Memo has confirmed his support for efforts against “the economic and environmental threat of the invasive carp”.

“We are at a very politically controversial time I have seen in my life,” Shriberg said, calling Trump’s “calm” memo a confirmed bilateral nature of the great lake policy.

But this path is uncertain.

The dangers of Trump’s trade war and affiliation have put US-Canada relations under pressure. Earlier this year, the president allegedly told former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that he wanted to revise the great lakes.

Shriberg noted that the co -operative management of the waterway explained the US -Canadian relations, but said “the Trump administration’s enmity with Canada … threatens to blow it.”

He added that if the war against the invasive car, the consequences would be both serious and unexpected.

“This will lead to dramatic changes in the environmental balance of water,” said Shriberg.

And if they ever become found in great lakes, “I’m not sure you will have any possibility of eliminating the population.”

25 2025 AFP