Asian carp successfully reproducing in Great Lakes watershed

Scientists have discovered the first Asian carp successfully reproducing within the Great Lakes watershed.

An analysis of four grass carp captured last year in Ohio's Sandusky River, a tributary of Lake Erie, found they had spent their entire lives there and were not introduced through means such as stocking, according to researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and Bowling Green State University.

Grass carp are among four species imported from Asia decades ago to control algae and unwanted plants in controlled settings such as sewage treatment lagoons. They escaped into the wild and have spread into the Mississippi and other rivers and lakes across the nation's heartland.

We'll speak with two invasive species experts about the significance of the finding.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.