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Business
6:30 am
Wed September 19, 2012

Market for Asian carp maturing in Illinois

Credit Adam Allington / St. Louis Public Radio
Grafton Mayor Tom Thompson (left) and Lu Xu Wu (Chinese investor in American Heartland Fish) speaking through an interpreter.
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When the French explorer Père Marquette traveled down the Illinois River in 1673, his journal tells of encounters with “monstrous fish” so large they nearly overturned his canoe.  

In all likelihood the fish Marquette was talking about were channel catfish, but nearly 340 years later fisherman Josh Havens says it’s bighead carp... and silver carp which now harass boaters on the Illinois (silver carp are the jumpers).

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Asian Carp
10:11 am
Thu June 14, 2012

Developers detail planned Asian carp-processing plant in Grafton, Ill.

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Cleaning an Asian carp for food preparation.
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Grafton Mayor Tom Thompson (left) and Lu Xu Wu (center) speaking through an interpreter
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Updated 5:04 p.m. with more details.

The tiny riverfront community of Grafton, Ill. has announced plans to build a plant to process Asian carp culled from the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.

The plant represents a $5.4 million joint venture between American Heartland Fish in Grafton, Falcon Protein, based in Alabama, and Wuhan Hui Chang Real Estate, a Chinese investment group.

Grafton Mayor Tom Thompson says the new plant will provide a welcome influx of good paying jobs.

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