[dailynews] April 18, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: April 18, 2011
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Report, campaign highlight threats to Great Lakes water supplies
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A five-year study by the U.S. Geological Survey in Lansing, Michigan, 
released earlier this year indicated groundwater levels have dropped by 
1,000 feet in the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan regions due to 
increased demand from municipal pumping stations. Source: Lake Michigan 
Shore (4/18)


NY Sea Grant projects for 2010 a success
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New York Sea Grant is celebrating the success of 2010 programs, which 
increased education and outreach on Great Lakes issues. Source: Watertown 
Daily Times (4/18)


COMMENTARY: Canada needs an armed coast guard
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Canada's east and west coast waters are thinly defended at best. The Great 
Lakes and the St. Lawrence River are rife with lawlessness that Canadian 
authorities lack the muscle to tackle. So where does the Harper government 
want to pour big bucks on defending our borders? The far North. Source: 
National Post (4/18)


Plans for offshore wind farms sputter
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As New York Power Authority officials near a decision point for their Great 
Lakes offshore wind-farm plans, they find themselves almost alone in their 
pursuit: Nearly all the other freshwater offshore wind projects in North 
America have stalled or died. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 
(4/18)


Incubator for bright ideas
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Hugh MacIsaac is riding the wave of the University of Windsor's growing 
academic footprint. As director of the National Science and Engineering 
Research Council's Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network II, he's 
heading up a Canadawide study of invasive species along the country's 
coasts. Source: Windsor Star (4/18)


The Salmon Experiment: The invention of a Lake Michigan sport fishery, and 
what has happened since
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Howard Tanner knew the idea of introducing salmon into Lake Michigan was 
risky - even more so converting a dying commercial fishery into a sport 
fishery. But in 1964, Tanner, the new state fisheries chief, had just been 
told to "do something spectacular." Source: Grand Rapids Press (4/18)


Vista King cruise boat moved from Duluth to Milwaukee
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Longtime Vista Fleet cruise boat the Vista King will find new life as an 
excursion boat in Milwaukee. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/18)


New fireboat named after fallen firefighter arriving Monday
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The vessel represents more than a year of work for Hike Metal Products Ltd. 
and its more than 20 workers. It's the largest boat the Wheatley ship 
builder has sent out of the harbor in four or five years and is larger than 
a fireboat built in 2007 for Baltimore. Source: Chicago Sun Times (4/18)


Red flags signal possible trouble for Lake Michigan salmon where chinooks 
are king
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Great Lakes scientists monitoring the salmon population found numerous red 
flags in their annual analysis of the health of the fishery. Source: Grand 
Rapids Press (4/17)


COMMENTARY: Wisconsin: a land of sparkling waters
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For thousands of years ever since the great ice melted, the pristine waters 
of this place have nurtured and inspired. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 
(4/16)


Asian carp swimming up Ohio River, rolling into Cleveland to Lake Erie? 
Someday - but not yet
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It may seem a long shot today, but little-known Long Lake near Akron, Ohio, 
might someday swing open as the back door which Asian Carp slip through to 
invade the Great Lakes. Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer (4/16)


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