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Great Lakes Daily News: 29 March 2006
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Lake Michigan stocked with fewer salmon
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Although charter-boat anglers caught a near-record amount of chinook salmon last year in Lake Michigan, the four states surrounding the lake have agreed to stock it with 25 percent less chinook this year in an effort to help prevent the fish from eating themselves into oblivion. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (3/29)


It's like NASCAR on the water
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The Soo Locks have opened -- good news for freighter-watching aficionados, a popular pastime for residents and visitors along the St. Clair River and Lake Huron. Source: The Port Huron Times-Herald (3/29)


Duluth urges clean sweep
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Residents are helping to clean up street grit before rains wash it into storm sewers, polluting streams and lakes. Source: Duluth News Tribune (3/29)


Hanging ten on the Great Lakes
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For decades, the Great Lakes have drawn their own kind of surfer - a hearty breed of ice warriors who ride those Great white waves year round. Source: Metro News (3/29)


Spring ritual: Steelhead anglers return to Wisconsin's Brule
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With more than 9,000 steelhead already in the Brule River after last fall's run, anticipation was high for Saturday's opener for fishing on one of Wisconsin's legendary rivers. Source: The Mercury News (3/29)


Minnesota Group urges cuts in pollution
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Minnesota's large manufacturers, utilities and municipal operations have cut wastewater-related pollution considerably in recent decades. But they could do better, a consumer advocacy group has announced. Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/29)


Illinois senator offers food for thought on pesky fish
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The latest tactic in the war on Asian carp that threaten the Great Lakes ecosystem is simple: Eat them. Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (3/29)


Underwater learning
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Children in Michigan's western upper peninsula are learning about the Great Lakes and the Lake Superior watershed in their backyard. Source: The Daily Mining Gazette (3/28)


Adopt-a-Beach program looking for volunteers
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In training sessions this week and next, the Alliance for the Great Lakes will train volunteers for its Adopt-a-Beach program. More than an annual beach cleanup day, these volunteers will help keep a year-round watch over Lake Michigan. Source: The Racine Journal Times (3/28)


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