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- — April 13, 2010
Round gobies, zebra mussels move PCBs through food chain

New research coming from the University of Michigan reveals that two notorious Great Lakes invasive species are helping move toxic PCBs up the aquatic food chain in Saginaw Bay, Lake[…]

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- — March 30, 2010
Legislation would ban Asian carp as fishing bait

Some Michigan lawmakers hope to pass new legislation that would prevent the use of Asian carp as fishing bait. State Reps. Rick Jones and Bob Genetski have introduced a bill[…]

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- — March 24, 2010
Supreme Court rejects second lock closure request

The Supreme Court has again refused Michigan’s request for a preliminary injunction to close two Chicago locks in an effort to stop the Asian carp, Reuters reports. The High Court[…]

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- — March 18, 2010
Why Asian carp pose such a threat

Millions of dollars have been poured into keeping them out of the Great lakes, and probably even more pages of newspaper space have been dedicated to the topic of Asian[…]

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