Invasive Grass Carp pose threat to Lake Erie, surrounding wetlands

A story on WIVB-TV about a type of Asian carp that has been found in several of the Great Lakes, including Lake Erie, interviews Helen Domske, associate director of the Great Lakes Program at UB, who said the wetlands, which she called the nursery of the Great Lakes, are most at risk with the arrival of the grass carp.

“These things can eat 40 percent of their body weight a day in plants. So if you have a 50-pound fish, roughly that’s 20 pounds of plants that each fish is eating,” she said.

Read the story here.