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Asian Carp Barrier Needs More Juice

Thanks to Illinois Senator Barack Obama and Ohio Senator George Voinovich, $400,000 was included in a recent emergency spending bill to prevent the shutdown of an electric barrier intended to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. Without these additional funds, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which built and operates two barriers strung along the bottom of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, would run out of money by late May.

As of press time, President Bush was threatening to veto the spending bill, most of which would pay for the war in Iraq and Gulf Coast hurricane relief

Biologists worry that Asian carp could rob Lake Michigan's popular sporting fish of their food supply.

— Debra Shore