(Windom, Mn.)– The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has designated more than a dozen lakes and rivers in southwest Minnesota as infested with asian carp-even though none of the invasive fish have actually been found there yet.
Those bodies of water are connected to Iowa lakes and rivers where bighead and silver carp have been caught after moving out of the Missouri River.
Ryan Doorenbos, the DNR’s Windom-area fisheries supervisor, says the move is aimed at stopping or containing the spread of the fish.
On Minnesota’s eastern border, the Mississippi River downstream of lock and dam 2 near Hastings and the St. Croix River downstream from the Taylors Falls dam have been designated as infested. Asian carp have been caught in those river sections.
(From the Associated Press.)
