-L. > wrote:
>
>Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>> -L. > wrote:
>> >What I mean, is there some predatory species native to Illinois rivers
>> >that would feed on the young of the Asian carp...? (Maybe Northern
>>
>> If there were, they'd probably have already grown
>> enormously in number due to the availability of so
>> many Asian Carp as food, and the Asian Carp wouldn't
>> be so big a problem.
>
>Not necessarily, if the initial population numbers were skewed too far
>in the favor of the carp.

Initially, there were no carp.

--Blair
"Nobody stocked the river with carp."