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Quit Carping!

Lake infestation "a red herring."

by Eve Silberman

posted 8/19/2010

While Michigan politicians issue alarmed statements about the invasion of the Great Lakes by Asian carp, two U-M professors say the peril is overplayed. Mesmerizing YouTube videos showing the fish (which can weigh up to 100 pounds) leaping into the air don't scare Jim Diana, a fisheries biologist and director of the Michigan Sea Grant College Program. "If they

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