$1 Million Reward For Stopping Asian Carp

The Michigan legislature and governor have allocated $1 million for anyone who can come up with a way to keep Asian Carp out of the Great Lakes.

Details on how much prize money will be offered are being worked out and there aren’t details on how many winners might be chosen, but the Asian Carp challenge will go live this summer.

The invasive species could do serious damage to the state’s $38 billion tourism economy and the Great Lakes regions’ $7 billion fishing industry.

The U.S. government and others have spent hundreds of millions to halt their advance.

Some ideas have shown promise in trials but are still in experimental phases; others have failed.