[dailynews] January 23, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: January 23, 2012
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Scientist: Asian carp would thrive in Lake Erie
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If the Asian carp reaches Lake Erie in large numbers, it may be coming to stay.
A new research article co-authored by a government fish scientist in Erie County predicts the Asian carp would be able to reproduce in large numbers in Lake Erie and its tributaries. Source: Sandusky Register (1/23)


Season ends with slight increase in Great Lakes cargo
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Poe Lock in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. stayed open three days past the traditional closing date of the navigation season at the request of the shipping industry, allowing the movement of more than 400,000 tons of additional cargo. The locks are scheduled to re-open March 25. Source: Duluth News Tribune (1/23)


Fish populations returning to Great Lakes
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Under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, researchers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Amherst have been assessing native species of fish on the Lower Niagara River and Lake Ontario. Source: WNED (1/23)


Environmentalists say Homestead Resort harms Sleeping Bear Dunes wildlife
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Environmental advocates say a northwestern Michigan resort is harming wildlife in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore by spraying partially treated sewage. Source: Detroit Free Press (1/23)


Great Lakes, Seaway under threat from pleasure boats: security report
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A new report concludes Canada has no coherent strategy for dealing with a growing national security threat posed by small boats in high-traffic border regions. Source: The Vancouver Sun (1/22)


Underwater guns, traps, aim to shake up Great Lakes invaders
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A new federal and state partnership seeks to bolster the bay's native fish populations. Officials will use traps and seismic guns to clear rusty crayfish and round gobies from spawning reefs, where they hang out and eat fish eggs. Source: The Holland Sentinel (1/22)


Senator seeks EPA help with harmful algae in Lake Erie
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These dense populations of algae, which contain toxins and can harm fish and humans, have especially been growing in the western basin of Lake Erie, around bays in Ohio, prompting a Pennsylvania senator to ask the Environmental Protection Agency for help. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey sent a letter to the EPA in December, encouraging the agency to work to improve the water quality in Lake Erie. Source: Erie Times-News (1/21)


COMMENTARY: Conceptualizing a Great Lakes commons
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Slowly over the past 50 years or so the perception of the Great Lakes has changed-at least among most thoughtful people-from limitless, exploitable resource to finite, fragile ecosystem. Unfortunately, problems persist, threats proliferate, most of the safeguards are reactive, and, with climate change and environmentally careless legislatures, the lakes may be threatened as never before. Source: The Ashland Current (1/20)


Invasion of the Great Lakes: Quagga mussels least known, most dangerous invader
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The little-known quagga mussel is taking over vast stretches of the Great Lakes, dramatically reducing populations of game and commercial fish and presenting a much more immediate danger to lake ecology than its more famous cousin - the zebra mussel - ever did. Source: The News-Herald (1/20)


Study to look at how farming, more impact Lake Erie
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How do people's actions, including farming, affect the Maumee River watershed, the largest in all the Great Lakes? A new Ohio State University research project will try to find out. Source: Drovers Cattle Network (1/19)


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