date:Jun 21, 2012
The plant will process Asian carp culled from the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.
According to American Heartland Fish Products, it has already signed a three-year deal to supply 35 million pounds of processed carp to a client in China, where there is a high demand for wild-caught Asian carp. The plant would also produce fish meal and fish oil.
Illinois lawmakers, developers, and state environmentalists believe the plant could help limit the populations of silver carp and big head carp, which h