GLIN==> Fish Lake Erie License Plate Available

["Jeffrey M. Reutter" <reutter.1@osu.edu>]

The new "Fish Lake Erie" license plate is now available and can
be ordered from 

http://www.oplates.com/

By clicking on "Specialty Plates" you will see a listing the
available plates and can click on "Fish Lake Erie" to see the
plate and continue your order.  I ordered mine over the
weekend.

Please consider placing an order now or when you current plates expire
(trailers and RVs can also be licensed).  As with all of the
specialty plates, they cost an additional $25, and in this case, $15 of
that will go to the Ohio Sea Grant College Program and Stone Laboratory
to support our research, education and outreach efforts (including our
work at Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island at Put-in-Bay) to protect
and enhance the value of Lake Erie.  We also wish to use this plate
to promote tourism along the north coast and sport fishing participation
at the "Walleye Capital of the World."

Special thanks to the 100+ members of Sea Grant's private sector advisory
committees and the Friends of Stone Laboratory for gathering signatures
on our petitions, to the many wonderful supporters who signed the
petitions, to Representative Chris Redfern for sponsoring legislation to
get the process started, and to Jack Waldock, former chair of the
Northwest Ohio Sea Grant Advisory Committee, for developing the idea of a
license plate to support Lake Erie and Sea Grant's important work nine
years ago.

Each year the Ohio Sea Grant College Program at The Ohio State University
supports about 20 research projects on Lake Erie.  These projects
have been supported at 15 different Ohio Colleges and Universities. 
Ohio Sea Grant was reviewed in 2006 and ranked as one of the best Sea
Grant Programs in the country (every coastal state, including the Great
Lakes, has a Sea Grant Program).  Some of our research is conducted
at Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island at Put-in-Bay.  Stone Lab,
Ohio's Lake Erie Laboratory since 1895, is the oldest freshwater
biological field station in the country and part of Ohio Sea Grant and
The Ohio State University.  Each summer 25 college courses are
taught at the Laboratory.  Since 1990, students in these courses
have come from 97 different colleges and universities and 326 high
schools (superior high school students are allowed to participate in the
introductory courses and receive college credit while they are still in
high school).  During the spring and the fall the Laboratory offers
field trips, workshops and conferences for grades 4 through adults with
about 6,000 participants annually.  Research goes on
year-round.  In addition to supporting our research and outreach
efforts, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of these plates will go
to scholarships and fellowships  for students studying at the
Laboratory.

Ohio Sea Grant supports eight extension agents along the shoreline from
Toledo to Conneaut, and leads Lake Erie artificial reef efforts, the
Clean Marina Program, the Clean Boater Program, the annual Lake Erie
Charter Boat Conference, the Lake Erie Millennium Network, the Great
Lakes Regional Research and Information Network, the establishment of
underwater trailways, and much more.  

Visit our web site for more information.

http://www.ohioseagrant.osu
.edu/ 

Jeff

Jeffrey M. Reutter, Ph.D., Director
Ohio Sea Grant College Program,
F.T. Stone Laboratory,
Center for Lake Erie Area Research (CLEAR), and the
Great Lakes Aquatic Ecosystem Research Consortium (GLAERC)
The Ohio State University
Area 100 Research Center, 1314 Kinnear Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43212
tel (614)292-8949; fax (614)292-4364; email reutter.1@osu.edu
http://www.ohioseagrant.osu .edu/
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