A semi trailer parked near the 5th Street boat ramp has drawn quite a bit of attention the last few days. The attention stems from the odor emitting from the trailer along with blood leaking from the trailer onto the parking lot at the boat ramp.

Oh and there are the flies. Lot of flies.

But, the trailer doesn’t contain anything nefarious. It contains Asian Carp. City Clerk Ryan Turner says fishermen with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have been on the Wabash River this week trying to control the Asian Carp population. And, the fishermen are putting their abundant catch into the trailer.

Turner said, “We are receiving complaints about a semi-trailer at the 5th boat ramp that is stinking and has some blood coming out of it. I promise it is not decomposing bodies”.

According to Turner, the trailer will remain in the 5th Street boat ramp parking lot until the end of the week when the fish will be transported to a processing plant.