More than a century after they arrived, invasive sea lampreys still threaten the Great Lakes’ $7 billion fishing economy. Read the full story by Vox.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-sea-lamprey
Oceanographers from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration have released their first algal bloom forecast for Lake Erie for the upcoming season and predict a smaller bloom compared to previous years. Read the full story by WCPO-TV – Cincinnati, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-algal-bloom-season
New research on water levels projects an unprecedented drop of water levels on Lakes Michigan-Huron and Georgian Bay to 1.1 meters below the record low by 2030. By 2040, levels may rise to 0.3 meters higher than the 1986 record high. Read the full story by The Manitoulin Expositor.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-lake-level
With toxic algae blooms becoming more prevalent in Lake Erie in recent summers, protecting the irreplaceable resource that Lake Erie represents, will prove to be our legacy for generations to follow suit. Read the full story by the Columbus Dispatch.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220525-algal-bloom
The City of Manitowoc, WI is again reminding residents it is unlawful to place grass clippings in city streets and alleys. When mowing your lawn, the city asks that you direct the blower away from the street and clean up any grass clippings that make it there. Grass blown into the street can easily enter the storm sewer, which ends up in rivers and lakes. Read the full story by the Herald Times Reporter.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-manitowoc-wi-grassclippings
The weather is getting warmer, attracting Chicagoans to the water. While people enjoy the lakefront, there is a darker side to the summer as it’s the highest water rescue season in Chicago. Read the full story by the DePaulia.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-increase-waterrescues-chicago
Ashtabula County’s neighbor to the north – Lake Erie – is expected to offer a good fishing experience in 2022, experts say. Read the full story by the Star Beacon.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-lakeerie-walleyecapital
The summer months are just around the corner and with all the runoff water from this recent rain, there’s a potential threat to those considering a swim in Lake Superior. Read the full story by CBS 3 – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-bluegreenalgae-threat-duluth
Details on how to finance the Village of Minooka’s $20 million stake in the Grand Prairie Water Commission that would bring Lake Michigan water to town were reviewed by trustees at a committee of the whole workshop held last week. Read the full story by WSPY – Plano, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-minooka-lakemiwater
Fishing seasons for muskellunge begin on June 1 in inland waters and June 15 in Great Lakes waters (Lake Erie, upper Niagara River, lower Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River), according to state Department of Environmental Conservation officials. Read the full story by the Lockport Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-muskiefishing
That blissful beach getaway you’ve been yearning for is much closer than you realize. Historically a busy trading post, Southampton, just a three-hour drive northwest from Toronto, features a sandy beach along Lake Huron, a community full of beautiful homes, more good food than you’ll have time to enjoy and an award-winning craft beer. Read the full story by the Toronto Star.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-lakehuron-southhampton
While the city has found no evidence of rogue sewage spills, an overwhelmed sewer system in the lower city that combines storm water and sewage in the same pipes has overflowed 44 times this year. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-smellyalgae-hamilitonwestharbour
Corälee Allaert, a 22-year-old University of Guelph student, has decided to tackle a big challenge to make something positive in her life. She will be swimming across two of the Great Lakes to commemorate the youth who have lost their lives to suicide. Read the full story by Guelph Today.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-swimming-greatlakes
EDITORIAL – The rise in fuel prices has prompted renewed interest in expanding container shipping at America’s Great Lakes ports, like Duluth and Cleveland. There is potential for Port of Duluth to develop containerized dry bulk agricultural exports to Europe, where growing numbers of customers are willing to take delivery of containers of agricultural produce. Read the full story by The Maritime Executive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220523-greatlakes-containershipping
The Great Lakes have been receding from record high water levels over the past few years. The amount of water that has left the Great Lakes is staggering. Each Great Lake peaked in a different year, and each of the Great Lakes’ water levels have fallen from there. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-lakemichigan-lakehuron-waterloss
Fishing reports from charter captains and walleye tournament anglers have spotlighted the outstanding early-season walleye fishing in the deeper waters of the Central Basin of Lake Erie. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-lakeerie-walleyefishing
The round goby, a prolific and destructive invasive fish, has spread from the Great Lakes all the way to the Hudson River. New York’s canal operators are trying to keep it from invading Lake Champlain too. Read the full story by The River.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-roundgoby-hudsonriver
The round goby, a prolific and destructive invasive fish, has spread from the Great Lakes all the way to the Hudson River. New York’s canal operators are trying to keep it from invading Lake Champlain too. Read the full story by The River.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-roundgoby-hudsonriver
Fishing seasons for muskellunge begin on June 1 in inland waters and June 15 in the Great Lakes waters of Lake Erie, Upper Niagara River, Lower Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by The Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-muskieseason-greatlakes
Fishing seasons for muskellunge begin on June 1 in inland waters and June 15 in the Great Lakes waters of Lake Erie, Upper Niagara River, Lower Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by The Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-muskieseason-greatlakes
Michigan Senator Gary Peters has introduced legislation to strengthen federal pipeline safety measures and mandate better oil spill cleanup methods. The new legislation is called Preventing Releases of Toxic Environment Contaminants Threatening Our Great Lakes Act – called PROTECT for short. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-legislation-preventoilspills-greatlakes
Fish caught in certain areas of Akwesasne should not be consumed. This is based on a warning from the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s Environment Division. Read the full story by ABC50 NOW.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-contaminatedfish-ny
Just how big an underinvestment Ontario is facing when it comes to the state of its drinking and wastewater infrastructure is difficult to tabulate. Some estimate the province is investing billions of dollars less than what’s needed to keep the system running smoothly. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-ontario
Experts say Michigan needs deep changes to water policy and financing, such as reducing the number of water systems, collecting and cataloging performance data, and ensuring the poorest residents can afford their bills. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-drinking-water
The first U.S. Navy vessel to dock in the local port since 1993, when the Navy conducted regular Great Lakes tours, was outlined in festive bunting Thursday as it docked on Rice’s Point. The hulking, nearly 400-foot war ship USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul is scheduled to be commissioned into the Navy during a ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday in Duluth, Minnesota. Read the full story by The Bemidji Pioneer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-warship-duluth
Algal blooms can become toxic under the right conditions. Researchers project an average bloom in 2022 based on current observations and rain forecasts. Read the full story by WDET – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-lakeerie-algaebloompredictions
Great Lakes ports are seeing a major jump in agriculture exports as the war in Ukraine’s ripple effects on global grain markets continue to play out. Read the full story by Michigan Farm News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-greatlakesshipments
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the boat will focus on cleaning up Lake Michigan, Green Bay, and the Fox River. They’ll specifically target areas around marinas, where they expect to find concentrations of litter. Read the full story by Spectrum News 1.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220520-pollutionvessel-greatlakes
A pair of 20-something lake sturgeons in a “touch tank” are ready to greet summer visitors to a new freshwater science center at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-lakeerie-algalbloom
A pair of 20-something lake sturgeons in a “touch tank” are ready to greet summer visitors to a new freshwater science center at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-sturgeon-touchtank
The city of South Haven, Michigan, has the authority to close beaches and Lake Michigan piers when there are unsafe conditions, after a new ordinance was adopted in January. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-southhaven-unsafepiers
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has awarded money through its Boating Facility Grant Program that will lead to several new fishing and boating access areas open to public use. Read the full story by The Patriot-News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-pa-anglers-access
Have you caught any odd-looking walleye from Lake Huron? The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it had received several reports of possible tissue degeneration in walleye from Lake Huron in the town of Au Gres, Michigan. Read the full story by WSMH-TV – Flint, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-discoloredwalleye
For two centuries, Marblehead Lighthouse has been a towering mainstay along Lake Erie’s shoreline. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is hosting a series of events this year to honor Marblehead Lighthouse’s bicentennial anniversary. Read the full story by the Fremont News-Messenger.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-marbleheadlighthouse
Researchers from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University met in Traverse City, Michigan, to discuss the impacts of microplastics pollution. More than 22 million pounds of plastic go into the Great Lakes every year. Read the full story by WKBD-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-freighter-microplastics-greatlakes
If you want to feel small, stand a few feet from a 740-foot freighter as it slides past on its way out of a 1,200-foot shipping lock at the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-freighter-soolocks
More than $100 million in funding for restoration to portions of the St. Louis River near Duluth, Minnesota, was announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday. A large portion will be funded through President Biden’s infrastructure law, which will accelerate long-awaited work in St. Louis River Area of Concern on Lake Superior. Read the full story by KSMP-TV – Duluth, MN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-greatlakes-duluth-restorationprojects
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are forecasting that Great Lakes water levels will continue their seasonal rise. Read the full story by Radio Results Network.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220518-greatlakes-waterlevels
A new study from the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, projects a roasty future in Canadian cities as temperatures continue to rise, warming on average at twice the global rate. Read the full story by Toronto Sun.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-canada
For more than 100 years we managed to foul the world’s largest freshwater resource to the point that their waters were undrinkable, unswimmable, unfishable. The GLRI is not a debt we are pushing onto future taxpayers, it is a debt we are paying off from our past actions. And it makes economic sense, as restoration dollars return two to three times their investment in value to our region and our nation. Read the full story by The Hill.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-glri
In a brief announcement on social media, news was shared late last week that Monty the piping plover has died. Monty’s unexpected death left members of Chicago’s birding community stunned, as well as those who’ve been following his romance with mate Rose from afar for the past four years. Read the full story by WTTW-TV – Chicago, IL.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-piping-plover
Michigan communities have reached an inflection point. After decades of maintenance and managerial failures, water systems across the state have deteriorated to the point of crisis. Read the full story by NPR.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-michigan
Forty years after the goalpost set by the federal government under the Clean Water Act, Indiana couldn’t be farther from the finish line. Indiana maintains the most polluted waterways out of any state in the country. Of the 62,500 miles of rivers and streams in the state, more than 24,000 miles (38%) are impaired by pollutants. Read the full story by The Herald Bulletin.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-indiana
Electric Vehicle drivers will have more spots to charge up along Lake Michigan starting this summer. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it will add 30 EV charging stations at state parks along the Lake Michigan shore, as part of an effort to create a network of chargers encircling the lake. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-electric
According to a Wisconsin study recently published in the Atmospheric Environment Journal, high fossil fuel emissions are traveling from coastal cities by lake breeze to areas surrounding Lake Michigan and creating concern for people with major health issues such as asthma. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-lake-breeze
Among the issues the development team members will address are public access to the waterfront and environmental concerns related to wetland mitigation. Construction has already begun on the $110 million Harbor 31 project. Among its features are a subdivision, senior housing, marina, apartments, retail and boat storage and sales. Read the full story by Mlive.com.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-development
The Cross Lake community in New York State (located 30 minutes from Syracuse in north western New York) are demanding a solution from state officials after they were left underwater for months last summer while others along the Seneca River remained relatively dry. Read the full story by WSTM – Syracuse, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-flooding
Wisconsin’s Kenosha Sport Fishing and Conservation Association was created in 1970 with a specific request to create a rearing pond for the purpose of raising fingerling Chinook Salmon. The group raises them for a release into the Pike River, which eventually sends many of them to Lake Michigan. Read the full story by WDJT-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220516-fish
As the weather gets warmer you may consider taking a dip in one of the Great Lakes. But, even for the most experienced swimmers, the Great Lakes can be very dangerous, with over 1,000 recorded drownings in the Great Lakes since 2010. Read the full story by WILX-TV – Onondaga, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220513-drownings
Detroit City Council is trying to get the Detroit River included in a list of world heritage sites and local activists from Detroit and Windsor are pushing The United Nations Education and Scientific Cultural Organization to recognize the local landmark. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220513-detroit-river
