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Anglers in a recent fishing derby on Michigan's Pine River got news far better than pulling in the largest fish. The Environmental Protection Agency recently reported that the fish they sought are much cleaner of DDT than when the competition began 15 years ago. More...
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The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is joining in the search for invasive fish in Calumet Harbor and the Illinois and Indiana nearshore waters of Lake Michigan. More...
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The Ohio Lake Erie Commission took their quarterly meeting to the lake on the Research Vessel Lake Guardian to see the type of research the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be conducting this summer on Lake Erie. More...
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The U.S. Coast Guard's Operation Spring Restore involves restoring approximately 1,222 maritime navigational aids, including lighted and unlighted buoys and beacons. More...
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Ottawa County, Ohio, water customers are paying 4.5 percent more for their water this year, partly because of the cost of removing toxins caused by harmful blue-green algae. More...
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The mayflies that rise out of Lake Erie each June and swarm cities along the shore in northern Ohio have been slower to show up in some spots this year. More...
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President Barack Obama signed into law the Water Resources Reform and Development Act -- which, among other things, authorizes projects to fix ailing locks and dams, improve ports and waterways, and restore damaged ecosystems. More...
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Researchers have been finding plastic microbeads in samples taken from all the Great Lakes since 2012 and are now investigating whether they are affecting the Great Lakes food chain. More...
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The city of St. Clair has won a Waterways Grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to defray some of the costs of the city's proposed new docking system for personal watercraft. More...
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The latest issue of the Aquatic Sciences Chronicle is now available online. The Chronicle delivers the latest news from the Aquatic Sciences Center, the administrative home of the Sea Grant and Water Resources institutes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More...
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June 6 was the official date that the Great Lakes region was ice free, butLake Erie's western basin is the only site warm enough to swim. More...
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About 30,000 channel catfish were released into the Chicago and Little Calumet rivers in Illinois as part of a program that officials say shows how far those urban waterways have come environmentally. More...
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With ice from the harsh winter delaying the start of this year's shipping season, the St. Lawrence Seaway reports total cargo shipped through the Montreal to Lake Ontario section down by nearly 25 percent from last year at the same time. More...
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Federal wildlife officials will search parts of the Portage River in Ohio this month to determine whether the invasive, parasitic lamprey has established a population there. More...
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently re-established the process by which communities may submit applications to have NOAA consider nominations of areas of the marine and Great Lakes environments as national marine sanctuaries. More...
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The fish are biting on the big lake and one charter company is taking angling to a whole new, high tech level. More...
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The lakefront real estate market on Lake Ontario is back on an upswing since the recession has eased. More...
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The Muskegon County Water Safety Task Force, in partnership with the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, is offering a water safety course in the Muskegon area that will teach water current safety, how to recognize someone in trouble in the water and the "dangers of the surf environment" in the Great Lakes. More...
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A federal report from the National Predictive Services Program anticipates the potential for a higher than average number of wildfires for the Great Lakes region by the end of summer. More...
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Scientists are using high-tech trackers on lean and siscowet lake trout to observe depth selection. But how will this effect the fish that's on your dinner table? More...
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The Lake Michigan Water Trail Association hopes to create an international trail system around the Great Lakes, stretching through eight states and the provinces of Ontario and Quèbec. More...
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Though it's starting to feel like summer in the Great Lakes region, with temperatures soaring into the 80s, icebergs are still loitering in Lake Superior -- a reminder of an especially harsh winter. More...
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The Water Resources Reform and Development Act, which includes a provision establishing the Great Lakes Navigation System, was signed into law Tuesday by President Barack Obama. More...
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Lake Michigan Water Trail Association is in the process of making an international trail around the Great Lakes, 7,000 miles, stretching through eight states and the provinces of Ontario and Quèbec. More...
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Though it's starting to feel like summer in the Great Lakes region, with temperatures soaring into the 80s (Fahrenheit), icebergs are still loitering in Lake Superior -- a reminder of an especially harsh winter. More...