What are the benefits to using rotenone?
There are many reasons why using rotenone is the logical choice to prevent the movement of 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. • 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 sensitive to rotenone than to other chemicals that were tested. • The overall quality of the fishery in the canal will improve by eliminating many undesirable species of fish and restocking in the future will improve the fishery. • What does rece
