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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

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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

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Mission: Prevent the introduction, spread and establishment

f Asian carp in the Great Lakes.

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Guiding Documents

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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Contract Commercial Fishing

1,950 person hours
43 miles of gill nets
365 electrofishing runs
91 hours of response

efforts

Electrofishing

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20,665 fish representing 47 species and 5 hybrid groups were collected White Bass Pumpkinseed Banded Killifish

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2017 Aquatic Invasive Species Traditional Sampling Sites

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www.AsianCarp.us

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Thank you!

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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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