(Spirit Lake)– The Dickinson county board of supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday for the county to contribute about $3,100 toward an engineering study into the possibility of installing a fish barrier somewhere near the Lower Gar Outlet.
The study has a total estimated cost of between $7,000 and $10,000.
The money the county is kicking in was left over from a Corps of Engineers study into the Lower Gar Outlet.
DNR officials, lakes area protective groups and others have been meeting recently to look into the possibility of installing a barrier in an effort to keep Asian carp, an invasive species of fish that can jump out of water, out of the Iowa Great Lakes.
