Take action now to keep invasive Asian carp from devastating Lake Michigan and Illinois’ great rivers and to ensure they remain inviting, productive and vital into the future.

With a 63-mile stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline that is among the state’s most valuable natural and cultural resources and that is home to 6 million residents, Illinois has much at stake in the battle to stop the spread of voracious – and potentially dangerous – invasive Asian carp.

If the fish enter the Chicago, Calumet and Des Plaines rivers or Lake Michigan through the Illinois River, they would immediately move up and down Illinois’ Lake Michigan waterfront, where they would congregate close to shorelines and beaches and consume the food that native fish depend on, endanger people on the water and spread to additional inland rivers and streams.

Among the eventual environmental and economic havoc the fish would wreak in Illinois: