A live Asian carp has been discovered in a Chicago waterway about nine miles from Lake Michigan — well beyond an electric barrier network designed to prevent the invasive fish.

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Though efforts have been made to keep the Bighead Asian carp at bay and out of the Great Lakes, the recent discovery of a carp beyond the electrical barrier system in place at the Chicago Area ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — An adult Asian carp found in a Chicago waterway near Lake Michigan this summer began its life far downstream and apparently got around a series of electric barriers ...

Several members of an invasive fish family are knocking at the door of the Great Lakes. Aggressive immigrant species, otherwise known as Asian carp (originating in China, Russia and Southeast Asia ...

This is the second time a live Asian carp has been found beyond the three electric barriers clustered in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal 37 miles downstream from Lake Michigan.

An Asian carp found in a waterway near Lake Michigan began its life far downstream and apparently got around electric barriers, officials said.

Silver carp could compete with native species, unravel aquatic food chains and devastate the region's $7 billion fishing industry.