Man charged with selling live Asian carp in Michigan
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Man charged with selling live Asian carp in
Michigan
By: John Flesher, AP Environmental Writer
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Michigan authorities have charged a man
with 12 counts of selling live Asian carp in violation of a state
law meant to prevent the spread of invasive species.
The state attorney general's office said today that 42-year-old
David Shane Costner of Harrisburg, Ark., sold two grass carp to
undercover investigators from the Michigan Department of Natural
Resources last month in Midland.
Officials said Costner was hauling illegal carp around Michigan in
a tractor-trailer and selling them in store parking lots. They said
he also was selling legal fish species such as channel catfish,
largemouth bass and fathead minnows.
Grass carp are among several carp varieties imported from Asia that
have spread in U.S. waterways. The two species considered most
likely to invade the Great Lakes are silver and bighead carp.