The Indiana Department of Natural Resources will increase Chinook salmon stocked in Lake Michigan by 50,000 starting in spring 2023, per Lake Michigan Committee agreement. Read the full story by KPC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-salmon-stocking
An Indiana man pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay $10,500 in restitution after illegally importing 2,600 pounds of live channel catfish into Illinois. Read the full story by The Southern Illinoisan.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-dumping-catfish
It’s back to the drawing board for scientists trying to come up with an accurate forecasting model for the annual harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie. For the second year in a row, the severity of the bloom has been underestimated. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-algal-bloom
The U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies, along with the U.S. Department of Justice, entered into consent decrees with two Northeast Ohio communities, mandating cities make modernizing repairs to their sewer systems to address sewer overflows into Lake Erie and Rocky River in Lakewood, and the Black River in Elyria, and bring both cities sewer systems into compliance with the Clean Water Act. Read and listen to the full story by WKSU – Kent, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-sewer-updates
Moxley Wildlife Area on Lake Erie’s Sandusky Bay, recently expanded by 99 acres after a donation by Ducks Unlimited, reports the Ohio Division of Wildlife, and increases the existing public wetland complex along Sandusky Bay. Read the full story by The Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221118-sandusky-bay
Consumers Energy is considering whether to keep its 13 hydropower dams on Michigan rivers. The dams are environmentally and financially costly, and deliver little energy, but their reservoirs are beloved for recreation. The outcome could dramatically alter Michigan’s rivers and surrounding communities. Read the full story by Bridge Michigan.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-hydropower
In Michigan, plans for The Docks development on Muskegon Lake that include a new marina and 240 homes are the subject of a public hearing hosted by the state’s water resources division. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-thedocks-marina-lakemidevelopment
In Hammond, Indiana, Perch America has stocked Wolf Lake 24 times, adding an estimated 124,000 advanced-growth walleye to the lake over the years. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-greatlakes-noaaship
Exploring new territory, the commanding officer of the NOAA ship Thomas Jefferson and his crew have discovered multiple shipwrecks on the lakebed of the Great Lakes. The ship surveyed Lake Erie and Lake Ontario last spring for the first time in over 30 years. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-greatlakes-noaaship
While Great Lakes fish populations are constantly in a state of flux, one species has declined precipitously in the last decade: lake whitefish. But Great Lakes leaders and fisheries managers are looking ahead in planning to do more with less. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-greatlakes-iceland-whitefisheffort
Studying pollution in the St. Lawrence River reveals information about relationships between societies and nature. What changes inside the water as it travels past cities, farms, islands, ports, factories? Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-water-pollution
Four days after a proposed agreement to improve western Lake Erie management efforts was opened for public comment, the state of Ohio held a webinar on developments with the H2Ohio program that aims to improve water quality. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-h2ohioprogram-fouryears
Agricultural producers and landowners in the Western Lake Erie Basin interested in implementing conservation practices are able to apply for funding through the Tri-State Regional Conservation Partnership Program. The funding opportunity was recently announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. Read the full story by The Daily Telegram.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-funds-agproducers-nrcs
On Nov. 15, 1938, the James E. McAlpine was in Milwaukee loading cargo. Vintage photographs from the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society and Milwaukee Public Library provide a glimpse into the ship’s history. Read the full story by On Milwaukee.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-portmilwaukee
Great Lakes shipping remains down, depressed by 5.15% so far this year despite an increase in transits. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221116-greatlakes-cargo
The toxic cyanobacterial bloom that’s become a yearly problem in Lake Erie’s western basin was relatively small this year but the bloom has lasted an unusually long time and was still there well into the fall. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-algae-bloom
After 38 years, David G. White II will retire from his job as New York Sea Grant coastal recreation and tourism specialist. After all these years, there are plenty of notable accomplishments to reflect on and celebrate. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-sea-grant
Three Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate in the Great Lakes states won on Election Day with strong backing from environmental groups. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-envionmental-groups
Bells tolled at Mariners’ Church of Detroit on Sunday in memory of sailors who have lost their lives at sea on the Great Lakes. The annual Great Lakes Memorial service was held at the historic church, which sits along the Detroit River in downtown Detroit. Read the full story by the Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-edmund-fitzgerald-ship
To commemorate the 1912 voyage to Chicago by the schooner Rouse Simmons to deliver Christmas trees for needy families The National Museum of the Great Lakes has begun taking both reservations and donation requests for Christmas trees to be delivered to the Toledo waterfront. Read the full story by The Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-tree-ship
The first Blue-Tech night dedicated to water innovations on Nov. 1 was a success, as presentations of startup companies and research project pitches, as well as several updates from previous pitch contestants, drove the first TCNewTech event focused on “blue economy or water innovation.” Read the full story by The Record-Eagle.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-blue-tech
The Wayne County, New York Water and Sewer Authority will receive a $30 million state grant for a new regional wastewater treatment plant as part of nearly $300 million awarded under New York State’s Intermunicipal Grant program. Read the full story by Finger Lake Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-wastewater
Sailing aboard Denali 3, a 46-foot all-carbon vessel, Geoff Paine and his crew earned first place finishes this summer in both the Bayview Mackinac Race and Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. Read the full story by Manistee News Advocate.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-sailing
In the last 18 months, the port of Oswego in New York State, has invested over $3.5 million in dock upgrades with the investments predicted to double by the end of next year. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-port
Ren Brabanec recounts their experience witnessing a wildfire while hiking on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Read the full story by Northern Express.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221114-wildfire
For those living near the Great Lakes who think they are somewhat insulated from the effects of climate change, a 1,695-word draft of a National Climate Assessment report released Monday included some sobering news: Lakes face a growing threat of hazardous algae blooms. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-climate-change
The United States and Canada have launched an initiative to establish a “green shipping corridor” for the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway system. Under the initiative, federal agencies will work with stakeholders to facilitate the establishment of a Great Lakes Green Shipping Corridor to help the industry decarbonize and involve setting up specific trade routes between major port hubs where zero-emission solutions are demonstrated and supported. Read the full story by gCaptain.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-green-shipping
Sailors who lost their lives in shipwrecks on the Great Lakes and Michigan waterways will be remembered at a historic church in downtown Detroit. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-church
In Mexico, New York, a total of 150 Mexico Middle School students in early October spent about four hours exploring and investigating Lake Ontario plus one of its tributaries, the Little Salmon River. Read the full story by Oswego County Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-students
The city of Elyria, Ohio agreed to complete a series of capital projects to eliminate discharges of untreated sewage from its sewer system into the Black River, which sits 10 miles upstream from Lake Erie. Read the full story by Environment News Service.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-sewer-overflow
An extensive survey on the condition of three major sports fishing areas on the Great Lakes — Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay — was released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday. Read the full story by the Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-fishery-findings
Algal blooms are typically not an issue this time of year, but researchers are noticing unusual blooms on Lake Erie this November. Read the full story by WNWO-TV – Toldeo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-algae-november
A proposed consent decree that will serve as a roadmap for state and federal regulators to get more serious about reducing western Lake Erie’s chronic algal blooms is now available for public viewing until December 12. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-erie-settlement
The Montreal to Lake Ontario section of the St. Lawrence Seaway will close its navigation season on December 31 according to a release issued November 4 by the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation. Read the full story by the Penticton Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-seaway-navigation
Shipments of potash and western Canadian grain are at multi-decade highs at the Port of Thunder Bay, Ontario. As the fall grain harvest moved through the port, local grain elevators handled 840,000 tonnes of wheat, canola, and other grains in October. Grain shipments for the month increased by 33 per cent compared to September and were eight per cent more than October of 2021. Read the full story by the Chronicle Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-potash
The Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative recently received $425,000 in federal support to strengthen the aquaculture community in the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-aquaculture
A start up company recently got design approval to build a ship that moves cargo with sails rather than fuel. Whether such vessels will someday ply the Great Lakes is uncertain but interest in decarbonizing shipping is high. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-decarbonized-shipping
In 2022, there were 150 piping plover fledglings born to 72 breeding pairs around the Great Lakes, the biggest brood of fledglings since they were listed as federally endangered in 1986. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-plovers
The Milwaukee Common Council has signed off on a $2 million investment in the South Shore Cruise Dock, in a bid to make the city a must-stop on the Great Lakes cruise circuit. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-cruise-dock
For the fourth year, Ontario residents can expect bridges over the Welland Canal to stay up into the new year as the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. extends the 2022 shipping season. Read the full story by the Welland Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-welland-canal
Environmental experts say Premier Doug Ford’s government proposal to build thousands of homes in parts of Ontario’s Greenbelt while adding protected land elsewhere will cause a host of ecological problems, including a higher possibility for contaminated drinking water. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-greenbelt
After an explosion four years ago, Wisconsin’s only oil refinery, just a few miles from Lakes Superior, is on track to start up early next year. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-oil-refinery
Thought to be on its way out, western Lake Erie’s Summer 2022 algal bloom has grown since Oct. 29, and its unusually tough resiliency is baffling scientists, who admit they have no good explanation for why it’s been hanging around so long this year. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-algal-bloom
A Great Lakes partnership has launched a new initiative to help preserve the local whitefish population and maximize the amount of revenue pulled from the waters. Read the full story by WJMN-TV – Escanaba, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-100-whitefish
Thursday marks 47 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down with 29 souls on board, becoming Lake Superior’s most haunting shipwreck. On Thursday night, Split Rock Lighthouse will mark the somber occasion with the tolling of a bell as victims’ names are read, after which the beacon will be lit in memory and hope. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-remembering-edmundfitzgerald
Even though two of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, border Wisconsin, many of the state’s residents in formerly redlined communities still do not have easy access to clean and safe drinking water. Advocates want to ensure funds are used to provide grants or forgivable loans to help disadvantaged communities invest in critical water infrastructure. Read the full story by Inside Climate News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-wi-advocates-waterjustice
Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network (WIN) is partnering with the University of Wisconsin Parkside and the Fund for Lake Michigan to reduce the stormwater runoff to the Pike River with a regenerative stormwater conveyance system. Read the full story by Kenosha News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-grantfunds-stormwater-improvement
A 10.15-pound smallmouth bass caught Thursday on Lake Erie set a new record for a Great Lakes smallmouth. Read the full story by New York Upstate News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-ohioangler-lakeeriesmallmouth-greatlakes-record
A multi-year project at Heddle Shipyards’ Port Weller Dry Docks will create more than 200 jobs after the company was awarded a $135.5-million contract to extend the life of Canadian Coast Guard Ship Terry Fox. The nearly three-year project will involve extensive engineering, planning and procurement phases, with shipyard work scheduled to begin December 2023. Read the full story by the Welland Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-heddleshipyards-coastguard
The Niagara Parks Power Station is Niagara Falls State Park’s latest attraction. In 2021 the park opened their generator hall where you can learn about the history of harnessing the power of the falls. Now you can walk through a tunnel that leads you to a spectacular view of the falls. Read the full story by WQBK- Malta, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-tunnel-niagarafalls
