I don't know how old this article is but for those who don't know the details, here's some info.

Hopefully someone comes up with a good plan soon.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=58344

To by knowledge they still haven't made it to the great lakes. I remember reading about it several years ago and looking them up online. Pretty crazy. Hopefully we can keep them out.

Looks like that article was from 2002

I can honestly say that carp do have the ability to wipe out vegetation in a body of water if nothing is done. Especially because of how fast they reproduce.  There's a small body of water in my town that has a stream (about 3 miles long) running from the ocean into it and the carp have been coming up it and have completely cleaned out all vegetation in the small body of water.

Watch some of the videos on Asian Carp they are crazy. Seen a couple where they are jumping into the persons boat filming.  

Just a matter of time before they are in every body of water in the US and I sure hope the Gov't is aggressively persueing eradication of the species to protect our species

Its only a matter of time before they establish populations in the great lakes. I'm not really worried about their impact on the great lakes. The quagga and zebra mussels already mop up all the phytoplankton.  These carp prefer zooplankton, which need phytoplankton. While the rivers in the Mississippi drainage are packed with phyto and zooplankton thanks to all the agricultural runoff. This will probably increase as more acres go into corn production for ethanol. There impact on other species is not clearly understood. Plankton levels haven't been dramatically changed but they make compete with other species for non food resource. For sports fisherman, I think the bigger issue is will be this will develop into a commercial industry within the next 5-10yrs. With the dollar dropping and food protein costs increasing they will find an export market for these fish. Its already one othe largest aquaculture species in the world. Then these fish will have an economic benefit and lobby, which will alter how the rivers are managed. One good thing about these fish are they are probably helping reduce the size of the dead zone in the gulf of Mexico, which in caused by zooplankton from the mississippi decaying and consuming all the oxygen in the water.

Let's see if they can live in the Hockanum River in old East Hartford!  

No way

Although they might enjoy tires, shopping carts and needles

and breathing motor oil ;D