Michigan's attorney general is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to help fend off the advancing Asian carp before the fish can reach and potentially devastate the Great Lakes.

"The Alliance applauds Michigan's move to protect the lakes," said Alliance President Joel Brammeier.

"Knowing there are carp less than seven miles from Lake Michigan, we have to take every precaution until we know those canals are free from carp and the barrier is not being breached."

The lawsuit, filed Monday by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, calls on the nation's highest court to seal off Chicago-area locks and waterways leading into Lake Michigan and to require new barriers to prevent the fish's movement into the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal via the floodwaters of nearby rivers.

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