After months of uncertainty, the Trump administration has committed to funding a $1.15 billion project to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday directing federal agencies to proceed “expeditiously” with infrastructure designed to deter the nuisance fish, affirming support for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project that has been under development for the past decade.
The carp have wreaked havoc in parts of the Mississippi River and its tributaries and have slowly made their way upstream toward the Great Lakes.
Scientists and local officials say the fast-breeding carp would upend the ecology and commercial fisheries of the lakes, which hold roughly 20 percent of the world’s fresh water.
