[dailynews] July 21, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: July 21, 2011
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International fisheries expert calls for complete hydrological separation to 
combat Asian carp menace
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A Michigan State fisheries and wildlife professor and international 
fisheries expert maintains that if Asian carp enter the Great Lakes 
ecosystem, drastic changes will reverberate throughout the entire system. He 
believes the electric barrier currently in place to keep Asian carp from 
invading is not enough. Source: MLive.com (7/21)


COMMENTARY: Current strategies to fend off Asian carp don't match 
devastating threat
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The Army Corps of Engineers is playing a form of biological Russian roulette 
with the Great Lakes. If allowed to invade, Asian carp - which eat like 
pigs, breed like rabbits and rocket out of the water when disturbed by boat 
motors - could devastate the lakes' $7-billion fishery and endanger boaters' 
lives. Source: Detroit Free Press (7/21)


COMMENTARY: Effective barriers are in place to stop Asian carp, and 
monitoring continues
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The Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with federal, state and local 
agencies of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, continues to 
pursue all actions needed to contain the Asian carp threat below the 
electric fish barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Source: 
Detroit Free Press (7/21)


EDITORIAL: A day to celebrate: White Lake moves step closer to clean bill of 
health
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White Lake in Muskegon, Mich., has come a long way since the week, decades 
ago, it was featured in Time magazine as the site of one of the nation's 
worst cases of industrial pollution. Source: The Muskegon Chronicle (7/21)


Teachers learn by doing science on research vessel on Lake Superior
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15 educators were selected to work with scientists on the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency's R/V Lake Guardian for the 2011 Lake Superior Shipboard 
and Shoreline Science workshop beginning this week. Source: Duluth News 
Tribune (7/21)


Asian carp (Part 5 of 6): Carp can be harvested -- but who will eat it?
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In the U.S., some entrepreneurs see places such as China as a solution to 
the Asian carp infesting domestic waters. These businesses are trying to 
flash-freeze wild bighead and silver carp from the Illinois River and ship 
the fish overseas. Source: Detroit Free Press (7/21)


Asian carp (Part 4 of 6): U.S. as much to blame as fish farms for escape
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If you say "Arkansas fish farms" and "Asian carp" in the same sentence, you 
can almost hear the boos and hisses. They're the ones who let the fish 
escape into the wild, right? Maybe not. Source: Detroit Free Press (7/20)


Buffalo councilman calls for hydrofracking ban in all Great Lakes cities
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When his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y. became only the second city in the nation 
to ban hydrofracking, councilman Richard Fontana seems pleased - but not 
satisfied. Since the Buffalo City Council unanimously passed the resolution 
in February, Fontana has been lobbying other Great Lakes cities to follow 
suit. Source: Lake Scientist (7/20)


Cape Vincent struggles with wind power divide
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Small communities across the North Country, from Burke in the east to 
Hammond in the west, have been deeply divided over wind power development. 
That's the case in Cape Vincent, situated just where Lake Ontario flows into 
the St. Lawrence River. Source: North Country Public Radio (7/20)

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