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Water News:
Four years ago the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources warned the Legislature and anyone else who would listen that silver carp -- the kind that can weigh more than 40 pounds and leap as high as 10 feet out of the water when they hear the whine of a boat motor -- would reach Minnesota via the Mississippi River unless a barrier were built to keep them out.
But no barrier was constructed, and the recent discovery that a silver carp was caught by a commercial fisherman near La Crosse, Wis. -- much farther north than its previously known location in Iowa waters -- indicates the DNR's warning should have been heeded.
More here.
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