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What are the benefits of using Rotenone?

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What are the benefits of using Rotenone?

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Rotenone proves to be a highly effective technique for eliminating fish in a system. Traditional methods of capturing fish, including traditional gear such as nets, can miss many individuals. Rotenone is being used in some circumstances in the Chicago Area Waterway System as a tool for Rapid Response against Asian carp: • The use of Rotenone provides the highest level of certainty that Asian carp will not advance past the electric barrier while it is shut down temporarily for routine maintenance (see also Rapid Response). • Traditional fishing gear may not work. Silver carp are very good at avoiding nets and the extensive navigational traffic in the canal makes using nets for bighead carp ineffective. • Nets would not remove all the fish and may miss the juveniles, which are of particular concern. • The International Joint Commission funded an Asian carp sensitivity project at the U.S. Geological Survey Laboratory in Columbia, Missouri. Researchers determined that Asian carp are more s

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