Interstate Shipping Banned for 'Injurious' Black Carp; Great Lakes Backers Win Ruling Against Ravenous Fish

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Great Lakes advocates have finally won a nearly decade-old fight with the southern fish farming industry over a law to block the importation and interstate transport of a particularly meddlesome species of Asian carp.

On Thursday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will list the mollusk-gobbling black carp as "injurious" under the Lacey Act. That means the fish, which are used on catfish farms to eat parasite-carrying snails, cannot be shipped between states without a federal permit, and such permits are typically granted only for research purposes.

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Interstate Shipping Banned for 'Injurious' Black Carp; Great Lakes Backers Win Ruling Against Ravenous Fish

"Black carp are especially worrisome because they have the potential to wipe out native mussel populations - many of which are already threaten...

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