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Great Lakes Daily News: 24 March 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Michigan rivers still cold, and steelhead runs come late
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Steelhead have been making spawning runs up Michigan rivers for about 140 years, adapting so well to their new home that many streams offer better fishing than rivers on the Pacific Coast, where the fish evolved. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/24)


Welland Canal cutting fees to attract more vessels
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As the waterway opened its 176th season on Wednesday, the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. and Transport Canada announced a reduction in lockage fees designed to attract more traffic to the 27-mile-long canal. Source: The Buffalo News (3/24)


Seminar envisions bomb at lake port
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With the frigid, crashing waves of Lake Erie visible through the windows behind them, federal, state, and local officials discussed how they would respond to a dirty bomb alert aboard a freighter in a lake port. Source: The Toledo Blade (3/24)


2004 chinook salmon season one for books
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According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 2004 featured some of the best fishing in years on Lake Michigan, producing nearly a half-million salmon and trout. Source: Green Bay Press Gazette (3/24)


Windmills in deep water
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The business of wind energy is picking up in Europe and the United States, including the Great Lakes region, but the turbines also stir up controversy. Source: Earthwatch Radio (3/24)


Michigan officials, Dow Chemical will meet with people on dioxin
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The public will be welcome to attend, but not speak at, a series of community meetings scheduled to discuss a framework for addressing dioxin contamination in the Saginaw Bay watershed. Source: The Bay City Times (3/24)


'Coast Guard City' HQ loses command
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Group Grand Haven, which for nearly 20 years has directed search-and-rescue efforts and administration along half of Michigan's west coast, is being downgraded in an internal reorganization plan by the U.S. Coast Guard. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (3/23)


Ontario premier, Ohio governor hold talks
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Air pollution from coal-fired plants and a draft U.S. agreement on water diversion from the Great Lakes were among topics discussed in the first meeting between Ontario's premier and the governor of Ohio. Source: The Toronto Star (3/23)


Landfill dumping fee hike trashed
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Opponents of a proposal to more than double the Ohio's fee for dumping trash at landfills argue it would not generate the revenue the cash-strapped state hopes. Source: The Toledo Blade (3/19)


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