This is no time for another study. It is time for action. Like U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., we find no comfort in the Indiana Department of Natural Resources' efforts to play down the threat of Asian carp reaching the Great Lakes via the Wabash River in Indiana.
Much attention has been focused this year and last on the relentless progress of the fish from the Mississippi River, northeast through the state of Illinois, as they bear down on Lake Michigan.
Meanwhile, the carp have covered at least as much territory in Indiana. They've made their way along nearly 400 miles of Wabash River, all the way to Huntington, only about 20 miles from the headwaters of the Maumee River.
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