David Lodge
David Lodge
David John Lodge CBEis an English author and literary critic born in London...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 January 1935
barrier best built coming crude electric fish great invader irony motivation passed proposed river round time
The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was first proposed to keep round gobies (another fish invader in the Great Lakes) from colonizing the Mississippi River watershed, but by the time the barrier was built they had already passed it. Now the motivation is to keep the carp from coming from the other direction.
bring bunch great might species
We might have been able to say 20 years ago that it was unanticipated consequence, but we know now that a shipload could bring in a bunch of invasive species into the Great Lakes.