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 have introduced separate bills to fight the spread of Asian carp up the Mississippi River.

"The time to act is now. When I first proposed a solution to invasive carp in Minnesota, they were a future threat. But last month, an invasive carp was caught just below St. Paul," Ellison wrote in an 

Star Tribune outdoors columnist Dennis Anderson 

 that Asian carp threaten the very character of the state.

Paul Labovitz, superintendent of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, and Peter Sorensen, scientific director of the University of Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Center, join The Daily Circuit to discuss the latest on the fight against Asian carp.

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Paul Labovitz, superintendent of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, and Peter Sorensen, scientific director of the University of Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Center, join The Daily Circuit to discuss the latest on the fight against Asian carp.


A pair of bills to fight Asian carp -- but would they work?

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