What are ways we can prevent invasive species from invading Lake Michigan?

Some ways we can stop invasive species from invading Lake Michigan are:

1. Capturing the invasive species and find out how they got here and where did they come from.

2. Don't bring any pets or clothing to the lake and live it there .

3 . Poison only the invasive species for example like : Asian Crap , Sea Lampreys & etc..

Ways to improve the invasive species from coming here are :

1. If you go on vacation don't bring back any water , sand or wild animals .

2. If you are a fishermen clean and check your boat for any unknown species .

3. Help make the water cleaner and fresher so we can see all sea animals that wash up on shore.

By doing this we can improve Lake Michigan's invasive species problem all you have to do is follow the steps.

Great lake, red alert!!!

We learned that invasive species are very dangerous to the ecosystem in the great lakes because the food will become scarce and it will become a competition. If it becomes a competition the native will die because lack of food would get to them. The lake invaders will breed and multiply quickly and will consume the natural food source that the native fish consume. This could then spread yo other great lakes. This could also harm or destroy the ecosystems. We need to stop this from happening.http://www.lakeinvaders.com/Lake_Invaders.html is a website helping this cause.
Here are some things that will help us from getting invasive species in our lakes. Don't dump live bait in the lake. Clean off your boat thoroughly. If you find an invasive specices alert someone. If you happen to catch an invasive specices dispose of it and don't throw it back. We need to help the lake and keep our native great lake specices alive. Following these instructions will help towards this cause and lead to a safer ecosystem. KEEP OUR NATIVE SPECICES ALIVE!

THE LAKE INVADERS INVADE!

The lake invaders are called the Asian carp. They were first discovered by scholars near the Illinois lake. The Asian carp has 2 of its kind. A big head carp, and a silver carp. These animals are extremely ugly and can grow to be huge and to be 100 pounds. These Asian carps are also eating and killing off most of the native fish to the lake Michigan. Little things like waste in our water is the cause of the Asian carp entering lake Michigan. That is why the government has spent 9 million dollars on a electric barrier to stop the Asian carp from entering lake Michigan.




Why, most of you are saying right now, "why is more fish such a problem". Well, because these kind of fish are killing off most of or fish that was native to the lake. It also is important to multi billion fishing corporations. This company makes money off catching the native fish, now since Asian carp have taken over and have reduced the population of our native fish, The company will lose a little of its money. The fish you eat at dinner, will not be there long if you don't do anything to keep Asian carp.



What you can do to help is simple:

1. Don't continue to put waste and garbage into the lake


2. If you fish, Don't use real live bait, the Asian carp will think its dinner.

http://www.asiancarp.org/ <-This is our website that we got our information.