GRAFTON — Local investors are planning a plant in southwestern Illinois to process Asian carp, an invasive species that poses a threat to stocks of native fish in particular in the Great Lakes.
Investors and their business partners on Thursday are expected to announce plans to build the site in Grafton, population about 700, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.
Mayor Tom Thompson said the development by the local investment group, American Heartland Fish Products, could mean about 35 jobs and a market for area fishermen.
The plant, expected to be on a blufftop site the city has rezoned and annexed, also could help control the populations of silver carp and bighead carp, species from Asia that increasingly have crowded out more popular fish in the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.
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