Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Report Your Lamprey Encounters
Via MLive: Great Lakes anglers asked to document lampreys through online program
Access the 'Lamprey Hunter' form from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission site
Access the 'Lamprey Hunter' form from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission site
Labels: invasive species
Thursday, January 14, 2010
StopAsianCarp.com
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has a new web site with all the news about keeping out Asian Carp.
See: StopAsianCarp.com
I know this is in the news a lot, and perhaps it sounds like hyperbole to some people, but this fish really would destroy the Great Lakes as we know them.
See: StopAsianCarp.com
I know this is in the news a lot, and perhaps it sounds like hyperbole to some people, but this fish really would destroy the Great Lakes as we know them.
Labels: fishing, invasive species
Friday, November 20, 2009
The Worse News You May Hear Today
This is bad news for the Great Lakes. Very, very bad. Perhaps even cataclysmic.
See DetNews: Asian carp may have breached Great Lakes barrier
See DetNews: Asian carp may have breached Great Lakes barrier
Labels: fish;, invasive species
Friday, October 30, 2009
New To Me - There Are Native Lamprey
Friday, July 24, 2009
The Good Fight
The Chicago Tribune has the story of the only laboratory in the world that can replicate a fresh water freighter's ballast system: Great Lakes scientists seek ways to kill invasives
Labels: freighter, invasive species
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Round Goby
See MLive: Voracious goby extends its range to deeper water, threatening Great Lakes, scientists say
Labels: invasive species
Monday, April 13, 2009
Restocking Herring
The St. Marys River is the only remaining area of the Great Lakes with a noticeable herring population. But the Michigan DNR is now studying the possibility of stocking this once plentiful fish.
See: DNR Studies Prospects for Sustainable Lake Herring Fishery in Lake Huron
See: DNR Studies Prospects for Sustainable Lake Herring Fishery in Lake Huron
Labels: fishing, invasive species, St. Marys River
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Some Good News
Coast Guard OKs barrier to keep Asian carp from Great Lakes
This comes after a study advocating for the separation of the Mississippi and Great Lakes basins.
See DetNews: Great Lakes, Mississippi River watersheds should be separated
This comes after a study advocating for the separation of the Mississippi and Great Lakes basins.
See DetNews: Great Lakes, Mississippi River watersheds should be separated
There are no natural connections between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. More a century ago, engineers linked them with a complex network of manmade canals and existing rivers to reverse the flow of the Chicago River and keep waste from flowing down it to Lake Michigan, which Chicago uses for drinking water.
Labels: invasive species, law
Friday, November 28, 2008
A Possible Solution To Invasive Mussels
Biopesticide may solve zebra mussel problem
This is good news for power plants but the biopesticide will not work in open waters:
This is good news for power plants but the biopesticide will not work in open waters:
the biopesticide could also be in other contained places, such as fish hatcheries, but right now there is no way to use it in a large open water body. “That’s still unexplored,” he said, adding that it would be possible to seal in a marina and flood it with the biopesticide to kill the mussels.
Labels: invasive species
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Fish Also In Distress
On the heels of the VHS fish virus (See:
Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes) comes more bad news for freshwater fish species.
See: Silent streams? Escalating endangerment for North American freshwater fish
And the decline in freshwater and saltwater fish populations is just one small part in Earth's sixth mass extinction event which is happening before our eyes.
For example, most people are aware of the worldwide collapse of bee colonies. Less well known is that populations of fireflies (what I used to call "lighting bugs") have declined by 70% worldwide.
Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes) comes more bad news for freshwater fish species.
See: Silent streams? Escalating endangerment for North American freshwater fish
Nearly 40 percent of fish species in North American streams, rivers and lakes are now in jeopardy, according to the most detailed evaluation of the conservation status of freshwater fishes in the last 20 years...
"Fish are not the only aquatic organisms undergoing precipitous declines," said USGS researcher Noel Burkhead, a lead author on the report and the chair of the AFS Endangered Species Committee. "Freshwater crayfishes, snails and mussels are exhibiting similar or even greater levels of decline and extinction."
And the decline in freshwater and saltwater fish populations is just one small part in Earth's sixth mass extinction event which is happening before our eyes.
For example, most people are aware of the worldwide collapse of bee colonies. Less well known is that populations of fireflies (what I used to call "lighting bugs") have declined by 70% worldwide.
Labels: ecology, fishing, invasive species
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Native Plants
If you are planning new plantings or landscaping this season please consider native plants in order to preserve the natural Neebish Island florae and the fauna that depend on them.
See:
AbMI - Consider Planting Michigan Native Plants
LTC - Attracting Butterflies with Native Michigan Plants
Invasive Plant Species in Northern Michigan
See:
AbMI - Consider Planting Michigan Native Plants
LTC - Attracting Butterflies with Native Michigan Plants
Invasive Plant Species in Northern Michigan
Labels: gardening, invasive species, wildlife
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Michigan's Ballast Water Law Challenge Unsuccessful
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Eric Sharp Writes About What We Can Do
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Invasive Species Lawsuit
This is a story that is just beginning.
From The Toledo Blade - Feds failing to fight off invasion of Great Lakes
From The Toledo Blade - Feds failing to fight off invasion of Great Lakes
Adding to the insanity is the fact the U.S. EPA - the very agency that made aquatic pests such a priority in 2002 - has exempted the powerful shipping industry from a provision of the Clean Water Act that requires ballast water discharges to be regulated as if they were factory discharges.
Labels: invasive species
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Another Editorial Against Invasive Species
This time the Escanaba Daily Press - Editorial: Invasive species — Congress needs to act
Labels: invasive species
Thursday, May 10, 2007
What Do You Do When Invaded?
Grand Rapids Press editorial at mlive.com - Justifiable Defense
Nobody would dispute a country's right to guard its borders against incursion. Yet a number of shipping companies object to Michigan warding off an ongoing invasion of its lakes perpetrated by their vessels. Michigan has the right -- indeed, the obligation -- to protect itself and its waters. Shipping companies that are serious about this problem, as they claim to be, will drop their legal complaints and come to a workable solution that will keep freighters moving and invaders at the door.
Labels: invasive species
