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A Great Lakes Asian carp summit

The Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality says she will sit down with governors of the Great Lakes states to talk about the Asian carp. In response to a request from Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, Nancy Sutley said she would “like to suggest a meeting during the first week of February, either in the Midwest or in Washington D.C., with you and your fellow Great Lakes Governors or your designees, to discuss the strategy to combat the spread of Asian carp and ensure coordination and the most effective response across all levels of government to respond to this threat.”

Earlier this week the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up a request by Governors Granholm, Doyle and others to close a couple of shipping canals in Chicago in an effort to keep the Asian carp out of Lake Michigan. The City of Chicago, State of Illinois and the White House opposed the idea.

Asian carp are voracious eaters and fears are they will destroy the food supply for native fish in the Great Lakes.