Daily News (Page 118)

Great Lakes cruises bring passengers, revenue to Muskegon

On: July 22, 2022

West Michigan welcomes tens of thousands of visitors from around the world every summer and many of them travel by cruise ship. Cruise the Great Lakes expects about 150,000 visitors into ports around the Midwest and Canada in 2022. There are 4 cruise lines serving Great Lakes ports, generating more than $120 million this season. One of those ports is Muskegon. Read the full story by Fox 7 News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-greatlakescruises

Hannah Reynolds

Mayor backs Hamilton museum at waterfront Discovery Centre

On: July 22, 2022

A local history museum paired with the public library would make for an “exciting” combination at the Discovery Centre on Hamilton’s west harbour, Mayor Fred Eisenberger says. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-waterfrontdiscoverycentre

Hannah Reynolds

Local parks receive state funding for renovations

On: July 22, 2022

Three parks in Northeast Michigan will undergo improvements after Michigan allocated $535,000 to help fund renovations. Rogers City is slated to receive $185,000 to update the popular Lakeside Park on Lake Huron. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-localparkfunding

Hannah Reynolds

Jury gets Flint water case about liability for engineers

On: July 22, 2022

Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday in the only trial to arise thus far from the Flint water crisis, a dispute over whether two engineering firms should be held partially responsible for the city’s lead contamination in 2014-15. Read the full story by WNEM-TV – Saginaw, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-flintwatercase

Hannah Reynolds

Canadian Coast guard has responsibilities

On: July 22, 2022

Sixty years of the Canadian Coast Guard service in Canada was recognized during a service aboard the Canadian Coast Guard vessel and museum, the Alexander Henry, on Monday. The Alexander Henry, a decommissioned icebreaker and part of the Lakehead Transportation Museum in Thunder Bay, was also celebrated — as it was launched in the city 64 years ago. Read the full story by The Chronicle Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-cacoastguard

Hannah Reynolds

COMMENTARY: The Great Lakes are drowning in plastic

On: July 20, 2022

The high concentration of microplastics in the Great Lakes is causing issues for humans and wildlife, and recycling alone will not remedy the problem. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-miroplastics

Connor Roessler

Rochester embayment of Lake Ontario no longer ‘Area of Concern’

On: July 20, 2022

With the improvement of water and wildlife conditions within the Rochester, New York, embayment of Lake Ontario, health and environmental agencies are seeking public input on the proposed elimination of the Area of Concern designation. Read the full story by the Rochester Business Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-rochester-embayment

Connor Roessler

Harmful algae bloom invades Lake Erie

On: July 20, 2022

A harmful algae bloom that can be toxic to humans and aquatic life has been spotted in western parts of Lake Erie over the past couple of days. The type of algae present in this algae bloom has been identified as Microcystis cyanobacteria. Read the full story by WKBN-TV – Youngstown, OH.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-algae-bloom

Connor Roessler

Pennsylvania hearing focuses on Lake Erie fish, tourism

On: July 20, 2022

A recent meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate’s Game & Fisheries Committee focused on the recovery of fish populations and water quality in Lake Erie, as well as the need for more funding to promote tourism for the area. Read the full story by The Center Square.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-erie-hearing

Connor Roessler

New technology could help improve responses to oil spills

On: July 20, 2022

For the first time in four years, local, tribal, and state groups came together with the U.S. Coast Guard to train for disasters on the Great Lakes. Drones, self-driving personal watercraft, and other remote-controlled water vehicles took center stage on Lake Huron. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-oil-spills

Connor Roessler

Save the River and lawmakers fight for stricter ballast water discharge standards

On: July 20, 2022

Working with the organization Save the River, 34 members of U.S. Congress have sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lobbying for stricter ballast water discharge standards. Read the full story by WRVO- Oswego, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-ballast-standards

Connor Roessler

EGLE planning to build jetty as part of waste clean-up effort near Buffalo Reef

On: July 20, 2022

Awaiting state budget approval, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy could soon be building a jetty in the first step to clean up mine waste from Buffalo Reef on Lake Superior with the help of six additional agencies. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-egle-jetty

Connor Roessler

Northland students find freshwater bond across borders

On: July 20, 2022

A group of Duluth, Minnesota, high school students has collaborated with their peers in Petrozavodsk, Russia, to produce a video celebrating their shared connections as residents of communities located on two of the largest freshwater lakes in the world — Lake Superior and Lake Onega. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-student-connections

Connor Roessler

Great Lakes Water Authority denies 24,000 flooding claims from summer 2021

On: July 20, 2022

The Great Lakes Water Authority announced that they’ve denied about 24,000 claims from victims of last year’s extensive southeast Michigan summer flooding after a probe found that heavy rainfall was the primary cause, not the electrical problems at two east-side pumping stations that reduced the ability to pump wastewater. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-flooding-claims

Connor Roessler

60th anniversary parade and ceremony mark Canadian Coast Guard Day

On: July 18, 2022

A parade and ceremony will take place today in Thunder Bay, Ontario in recognition of 60 years of Canadian Coast Guard service. The event will celebrate the critical contribution and role of the Canadian Coast Guard in maintaining and policing the waterways of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway System since 1962. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-coast-guard

Patrick Canniff

Happy Lake Superior Day! 5 facts about the biggest of Great Lakes

On: July 18, 2022

Celebrated every year on the third Sunday in July, Lake Superior Day is a day to bask in the glory of the largest of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WDIC-TV – Detroit, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-lake-superior

Patrick Canniff

Fishing should be ‘absolutely forbidden’ during spawning season

On: July 18, 2022

Dr. David Philipp, a professor at the University of Illinois and a Director of the Fisheries Conservation Foundation has been studying the bass populations in eastern Ontario lakes for decades. He argues that though the bass season opened June 18 this year, males were still guarding their broods contributing to increased nest predation. Read the full story by Smiths Falls Record News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-fish-spawning

Patrick Canniff

After pandemic shutdown, the cruise ship industry is booming on the Great Lakes

On: July 18, 2022

Even though this is the first year for the Viking’s cruise ships on the Great Lakes, commercial cruising has been slowly expanding in the lakes the past decade, with the exception of the initial pandemic years. 2022 may be setting records, with nine cruise ships setting sail this season, four of them new ships making their inaugural trips through the locks and into the lakes. Read the full story by Chicago Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-cruise-ship

Patrick Canniff

Brown trout population remains small

On: July 18, 2022

The state of Michigan may no longer plant brown trout in Lake Huron in Northeast Michigan, as efforts to release them yielded only about 2% survival. Instead, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is planning to release brown trout in other areas where they believe the survival rate is higher. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-brown-trout

Patrick Canniff

Lost shipwreck resurfaces in Lake Michigan nearly 200 years after sinking

On: July 18, 2022

Kevin Ailes began researching the wreck of the Milwaukie, a ship that went down in a fierce winter storm near Saugatuck in November of 1842. It’s one of the earliest known shipwrecks along the West Michigan lakeshore. Read the full story by UpNorthLive.com.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-shipwreck

Patrick Canniff

Ontario seeks new electricity generation as demand rises, nuclear plant to be retired

On: July 18, 2022

Ontario’s electricity system is searching for more power producers as demand rises and a major nuclear plant nears retirement, a process likely to secure more natural gas generation while the government seeks to end reliance on it. It means that for at least the next two decades, greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are set to increase. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-energy-nuclear

Patrick Canniff

Big pit energy: an old mine could bring renewables and new life to an eastern Ontario town

On: July 18, 2022

The former Marmoraton iron mine in Northland, Ontario is being considered for a pumped energy storage site potentially powering 1,000 homes through the stored hydropower, but financial concerns remain. Read the full story by The Narwhal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-energy-pump

Patrick Canniff

It’s an adventure: Sailors head out for 98th Port Huron-to-Mackinac Island Sailboat Race

On: July 18, 2022

On Saturday July 16^th, the 98th Bayview Mackinac Race took place as more than 170 sailboats headed out onto Lake Huron. Read the full story by Times Herald.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-sailboat-race

Patrick Canniff

Dead fish continue to wash up on shore near Euclid Waterfront

On: July 18, 2022

The town of Euclid, OH located about 15 minutes northeast of Cleveland, has had fish wash up on their shoreline over the past week. View the full story by WOIO-TV – Euclid, OH.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-dead-fish

Patrick Canniff

Industries and public water supplies top the list of main consumers of Great Lakes water

On: July 15, 2022

In the Great Lakes basin, public water supplies and industrial water consumption are continually both the largest users and consumers of water, but overall usage of Great Lakes water has gone down in recent years according to the Great Lakes Commission’s most recent water use report. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-water-consumers

Theresa Gruninger

New web scanning technology helps protect the Great Lakes from invasive species

On: July 15, 2022

Great Lakes officials are using tech to scan the web for businesses selling invasive species. The Great Lakes Commission is testing a web-crawler that scans for websites selling invasive species that could harm the Great Lakes. Read the full story Michigan Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-gldiatr

Theresa Gruninger

New state budget includes $34M for fish hatcheries, new Great Lakes research vessel

On: July 15, 2022

Michigan’s fisheries will be getting a $34 million boost from the state’s new budget, which will go to infrastructure upgrades at Michigan’s aging fish hatcheries and replacing an outdated Great Lakes survey vessel. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-fish-budget

Theresa Gruninger

Supply chain issues not hitting Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, officials optimistic

On: July 15, 2022

The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System, a 300-mile freshwater system that includes both Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, has seen a steady increase in traffic since the start of its 2022 navigation season with few supply chain issues. Read the full story WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-supply-chain

Theresa Gruninger

Toxic algal blooms are driving up water costs in the Great Lakes

On: July 15, 2022

Beyond the health risks of algal blooms, Toledo, Ohio residents are paying the price for this ever-present threat. According to a report released in May by the nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes, the city of Toledo spends, on average, $18.76 per person annually on algal bloom monitoring and treatment, making water bills unaffordable to many. Read the full story by Grist.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-water-cost

Theresa Gruninger

Group calls for a moratorium on offshore Lake Erie turbines

On: July 15, 2022

The group Citizens Against Wind Turbines In Lake Erie held an informational meeting Tuesday night in Hamburg, New York calling for a moratorium on offshore turbines in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, New York.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-wind-turbines

Theresa Gruninger

New York DEC gets $150K to expand environmental learning for Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River schools

On: July 15, 2022

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced on Wednesday that it received a $150,000 grant to expand K-12 environmental education in the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River watersheds. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-education

Theresa Gruninger

COMMENTARY: Banned flame retardants continue to accumulate in the St. Lawrence River and the whales and fish that live there

On: July 15, 2022

While many flame retardants are now banned, accumulation in wildlife is still prevalent, with these chemicals being found in almost all the animals studied in the St. Lawrence River. Read the full story by The Conversation.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-flame-retardants

Theresa Gruninger

Program aims to help solve problem of plastics in Great Lakes

On: July 15, 2022

Pollution Probe and the Council of the Great Lakes Region are leading the charge to keep our beaches and waterbodies clean through the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup — the largest initiative of its kind in the world, using innovative plastic capture technologies to remove plastic and other litter from the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Toronto Star.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-plastic

Theresa Gruninger

Ship seen along shore canvassing lake floor for first time since 1940s

On: July 15, 2022

If you have spent any time on the beaches of Lake Erie lately, you may have likely noticed a big ship canvassing the water. The NOAA vessel Thomas Jefferson has been canvassing the lake for the past week by using high-tech sonar to help mariners understand what is beneath the water. Read the full story by Erie New Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-lake-floor

Theresa Gruninger

One of Lake Superior’s coldest years could actually be good news for the ecosystem

On: July 13, 2022

Lake Superior’s surface temperature is the coldest it has been since 1997 at this point in the year. These cold temperatures could discourage the spawning of invasive species and set native populations up to thrive. Read the full story by WSAW-TV — Wausau, WI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220713-temperature-spawning

Tribe walleye stocking program introduces 2 million fish into Michigan waterways this year

On: July 13, 2022

In Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the Sault Tribe is expanding its walleye stocking program that has released nearly 19 million walleye through the Great Lakes since its inception in 1995. With the addition of a third breeding pond, the program released over two million walleye this year. Read the full story by The Sault News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220713-walleye-stocking

Great Lakes resurrection: Muskegon Lake transforms from industrial dump to ‘ridiculous’ potential

On: July 13, 2022

Muskegon Lake, a designated Area of Concern in Michigan, is celebrated as being virtually clean of its industrial past after an investment of over $80 million over more than 30 years. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220713-muskegonlake-restoration

The deepest egg hunt in the Great Lakes

On: July 13, 2022

A team aboard the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ research vessel Lake Char discovered the deepest occurrence of lake trout spawning in the Great Lakes at over 400 feet. This study uncovered the mystery of the spawning location and habitat of the deep-water lake trout. Read the full story by Up North Voice.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220713-laketrout-spawning

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer pushes FEMA to activate flood-prevention funding program

On: July 13, 2022

As the threat of high Lake Ontario water levels worries shoreline communities in New York, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer visited Sodus Point to push for activating FEMA’s $500 million revolving-loan program to help pay for flood-prevention projects. Read the full story by Finger Lakes Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220713-floodprevention-funding

Community fears for major flooding on Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario, as feds assess protection funding

On: July 13, 2022

A Leamington, Ontario, environmental group is calling for governmental action to prevent the possibility of destructive flooding due to rising Lake Erie water levels. Read the full story by CBC News.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220713-flooding-prevention

EGLE announces timeline for replacing dams that failed in 2020

On: July 13, 2022

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy laid out a $250 million plan to repair dams that failed in May 2020, draining Secord, Smallwood, Sandford, and Wixom Lakes. Read the full story by WNEM — Saginaw, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220713-dams-funding

Gordon Food Service working to sell Asian carp products

On: July 13, 2022

A month after the Illinois DNR officially rebranded Asian carp as copi, Gordon Food Service, one of West Michigan’s largest food service companies, is working to find a supplier to sell Asian carp products. Read the full story by WOOD-TV — Grand Rapids, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220713-gordonfoodservice-asiancarp

UMD scientists study phytoplankton, the base of Great Lakes food chain

On: July 11, 2022

The base of the food chain across the Great Lakes is changing in ways affecting the top of the food chain, the fish we love to catch and eat, and scientists at the Natural Resources Research Institute at the University of Minnesota Duluth are trying to find out why. The problems are different in each lake, but start with tiny plants called phytoplankton, microscopic marine algae. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-phytoplankton-greatlakesfoodchain

Hannah Reynolds

More than 8 million Illinoisans get drinking water from a utility where forever chemicals have been detected, Tribune investigation finds

On: July 11, 2022

Until now, the scope of PFAS problems in Illinois remained unknown. More than 8 million people in the state — 6 out of every 10 Illinoisans — get their drinking water from a utility where at least one forever chemical has been detected, according to a Chicago Tribune investigation that included a computerized analysis of test results and a review of court documents, government records and scientific studies. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-illinois-pfas-drinkingwater

Hannah Reynolds

Sea Change: Why the electric boat industry is sailing toward northern Michigan

On: July 11, 2022

While electric boats represent just two percent of the marine economy, industry players see big potential – and see northern Michigan as an ideal place to make an early mark. Read the full story by The Ticker.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-electricboatindustry-michigan

Hannah Reynolds

More sturgeon have been detected migrating up the Milwaukee River, but spawning is likely years away

On: July 11, 2022

Eighteen lake sturgeon were detected migrating upstream this spring in the Milwaukee River, according to data from the Department of Natural Resources. The number is a modern-era record and was cheered by sturgeon recovery advocates. Read the full story by The Wausau Daily Herald.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-sturgeon-milwaukeeriver

Hannah Reynolds

Port Days event in Detroit celebrates both past and future of Great Lakes cruising

On: July 11, 2022

The Motor City was awash with maritime revelry Saturday as the Ocean Navigator cruise ship anchored at the RiverWalk in Detroit, MI for the first Port Days event aimed at showcasing maritime travel on Michigan’s beloved waters. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-portdaysevent-detroit

Hannah Reynolds

Keweenaw Invasive Species Management Area surveying for phragmites

On: July 11, 2022

The Keweenaw Invasive Species Management Area is working alongside other Upper Peninsula cooperative invasive species management areas to survey for native and invasive phragmites in Houghton, Baraga and Keweenaw counties (Michigan). Read the full story by The Mining Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-keweenawinvasivespecies-phrag

Hannah Reynolds

Second annual Shoreline Cleanup at Sault Ste. Marie

On: July 11, 2022

This year, partners in the Sault Ste. Marie area have come together to participate and want to invite the local community and partners to take part in this critical clean up initiative on Saturday, July 16, 2022. Since launching in Canada in 1994, the Ocean Wise Shoreline Cleanup Program has expanded across Canada and now into the United States. Read the full story by Superior Media.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-shorelinecleanup-saultstemarie

Hannah Reynolds

Port of Quebec consolidates and expands cruise ship capacity with new multipurpose terminal

On: July 11, 2022

To meet the growing enthusiasm for Québec City as a cruise destination, the Port of Québec now has a modern terminal as welcoming as the city itself. The cruise terminal was built following consultation with the local cruise industry, which had identified the need for a new terminal to improve the reception of cruise passengers in Québec City and ensure a high satisfaction rate. Read the full story by PortNews.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/202207011-portofquebec-terminal

Hannah Reynolds