Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America's most voraciously invasive species. Politicians, ecologists, and government wildlife officials are fighting a desperate rearguard action to halt the onward reach of Asian Carp, four troublesome fish now within a handful of miles from entering Lake Michigan. From aquaculture farms in Arkansas to the bayous of Louisiana; from marshlands in Indiana to labs in Minnesota; and from the Illinois River to the streets of Chicago where the last line of defense has been laid to keep Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, Overrun takes us on a firsthand journey into the heart of a crisis. Along the way, environmental journalist Andrew Reeves discovers that saving the Great Lakes is only half the challenge. The other is a radical scientific and political shift to rethink how we can bring back our degraded and ignored rivers and waterways and reconsider how we create equilibrium in a shrinking world. With writing that is both urgent and wildly entertaining, Andrew Reeves traces the carp's explosive spread throughout North America from an unknown import meant to tackle invasive water weeds to a continental scourge that bulldozes through everything in its path.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-357) and index
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- CaOOCEL
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- 597/.4820973
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- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781773053363 9781770414761
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- QL638.C94
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- R447 2019eb
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- 1 electronic text (373 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00978660 (OCoLC)1080215933 (CaOOCEL)479959
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- Dispatches from the Asian carp crisis
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Spine 2
- Title Page 7
- Dedication 9
- Copyright 8
- Table of Contents 11
- Introduction 13
- Chapter 1: In the Beginning 27
- Chapter 2: “Ecology’s Helper” 57
- Chapter 3: Tragedy of the White Amur 87
- Chapter 4: Research Backwater 111
- Chapter 5: Scientific Salvation 139
- Chapter 6: Trouble with Fishing 165
- Chapter 7: “Eat ’em to Beat ’em?” 190
- Chapter 8: The Glorious Gate 215
- Chapter 9: eDNA Rising 243
- Chapter 10: Via Chicago 266
- Chapter 11: At Home in the Great Lakes 295
- Concusion 321
- POSTSCRIPT 338
- AUTHOR’S NOTE 341
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 343
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 370
- INDEX 373
- About the Author 386
- Back Cover 387