HURON, Ohio — It is not often that you can collect the representatives from more than a half dozen federal agencies, several watchdog groups, and a commission whose membership includes eight states and two Canadian provinces, pack them in a room and have them march in lockstep and speak the same tongue.

Captain Dave Spangler is the captain of Dr. Bug’s Charter Boats in Oak Harbor. “We fish for perch and walleye...

A coalition of environmental and civic groups wants the Great Lakes states and the federal government to spend from $3.5 billion to $9 billion to close off the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Lake Michigan.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Thirty-one members of Congress prodded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday to consider a multibillion-dollar plan released last week for cutting a Chicago-area link between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds to stop migration of Asian carp and other invasive species.

A coalition of environmental and civic groups wants the Great Lakes states and the federal government to spend from $3.5 billion to $9 billion to close off the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Lake Michigan.

(Chicago, IL)- Northland's NewsCenter-- The threat of Asian Carp invading the Great Lakes has both ecological and economic implications. But a new study shows there may be a solution to curb the threat.

Michigan voters know a lot about Asian carp and 93% of those in a new poll said they are somewhat or very concerned about the fish getting into Lake Michigan, according to a new poll released today.

Asian carp should be permanently cut off from Lake Michigan by sheet pile or impermeable land bridges, effectively re-reversing the flow of the Chicago River, according to a study set to be released Tuesday by a coalition of Great Lakes states and cities.

Building permanent barriers in Chicago’s canals and waterways could block the voracious Asian carp from invading Lake Erie, according to a report released yesterday, but they would take years to put up and cost taxpayers more than $3 billion.

Two senior Michigan lawmakers are counting on a new report outlining ways to protect the Great Lakes from Asian carp and other invasive species to provide fresh impetus in Congress for a bill mandating urgent action.