Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee Asian Carp Update July 24, 2017 Presented by: Charlie Wooley, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Kevin Irons, Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources
Mission: Prevent the introduction, spread and establishment of Asian carp in the Great Lakes.
Guiding Documents
Seasonal Intensive Monitoring: June 12-23,2017 ● Multi-agency effort throughout Chicago Area Waterway System ● Predicated by eDNA sampling ● 239 electrofishing runs (60 hours/12,306 fish) ● Four 800 yard seine hauls (2,763 fish) ● 53 net nights of trap netting (294 fish) ● 19 net nights of Great Lakes pound nets (646 fish) ● 273 gill netting (30.6 miles of gill net, 935 fish)
● Adult male silver carp captured on June 22, 2017 below T.J. O’Brien Lock and Dam, 9 miles from Lake Michigan ● 28 inches long, weighing 8 pounds and determined to be fertile ● Currently being examined by Southern Illinois University to learn more about the fish’s age and potential origin
UPDATE: June 22, 2017 RM 324.2, Location of Silver Carp Captured below TJ O’Brien Lock TJ O’Brien Lock Asian Carp Status Map June 22, 2017
Operation Silver Bullet Two weeks of additional intensive sampling 13 mile section of the Chicago Area Waterway System above the barrier and including Calumet Harbor Crews included: ● Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources ● U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ● U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ● Illinois Natural History Survey ● Contracted Commercial Fishers
Contract Commercial Fishing Electrofishing ● 1,950 person hours ● 43 miles of gill nets ● 365 electrofishing runs ● 91 hours of response efforts
Pumpkinseed Banded Killifish White Bass 20,665 fish representing 47 species and 5 hybrid groups were collected
2017 Aquatic Invasive Species Traditional Sampling Sites
www.AsianCarp.us
Thank you!
Questions? ● Charlie Wooley, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ● Kevin Irons, Illinois Department of Natural Resources ● Bill Bolen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ● Janet Cote, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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