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Water samples taken in Lake Michigan reveal that Asian carp have made the jump into the world's largest freshwater system, the Journal Sentinel has learned.

Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to slam shut two lakeside navigation locks to prevent the super-sized, north-migrating carp from making the jump into the lake.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a lawsuit filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to close some Chicago locks to prevent the massive Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.

Cox has asked the nation's highest court to issue a preliminary injunction to close the locks in order to keep the invasive carp, which can weigh hundreds of pounds, from migrating into the Great Lakes, where they could ravage the regional fishing economy and possibly make it into local river systems.

Milwaukee Riverkeeper's Executive Director, Karen Schapiro was recently featured in a story about the issue by WUWM - Milwaukee Public Radio.

[excerpted from the Journal-Sentinel]

Wisconsin has entered the multi-state battle against Illinois and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop an Asian carp invasion of the Great Lakes.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in support of Michigan's recent motion to force the state of Illinois and the federal government to shut down a couple of navigational locks that provide an artificial link between Lake Michigan and the adjacent carp-infested waters of the Mississippi River basin.

Wisconsin now joins Ohio and Minnesota in supporting Michigan's push to reopen a nearly century-old Supreme Court case over Chicago's diversion of Lake Michigan water down the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.