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About a million pounds of Asian carp are pulled out of the river system each year between Brandon Road Lock and Dam and Starved Rock State Park, Irons said. About 800 fish annually are pulled from the Dresden Pool area, he said. Read the full story by The Northwest Herald. View the full article

Pressure from a diverse collection of U.S. senators and representatives means ongoing preservation and enhancement of one of our region’s most precious and vital natural resources – the Great Lakes – will not be gravely endangered in the foreseeable future. Read the full story by The Vindicator. View the full article

The St. Lawrence Seaway reopens later this week as the Great Lakes shipping season resumes after the annual winter hiatus. The seaway, a series of 13 locks between Montreal and Lake Erie, supports 227,000 jobs and $34 billion in economic activity in the United States and Canada. Read the full story by The Northwest Indiana Times. View the full article

An effort to remove the Great Lakes gray wolf from the federal endangered species list failed last week when Congress approved an omnibus spending bill. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio. View the full article

In Ontario, the Great Lakes Community Guardian Fund is funding a cleanup of the 94-year-old Trowbridge Island lighthouse, located off the southeast shore of the Sibley Peninsula. Read the full story by Thunder Bay News Watch. View the full article

Michigan Sea Grant is starting a program to teach kayakers and canoers to report aquatic invasive species found along waterways. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio. View the full article

In Michigan, a broken sewer line under Betsie Bay in Benzie County has been replaced, but not before spewing an estimated 1.1 million gallons of raw sewage into Lake Michigan over nearly seven weeks. Read the full story by The Record Eagles. View the full article

The twin oil pipelines crossing the Straits of Mackinac are expected to get additional structural support this summer, though environmental groups say it’s a step in the wrong direction. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

Some of the work of enforcing the Great Lakes Compact is at a regional level, but the rest of the enforcement is delegated to the states themselves to handle internally; state legislatures and regulators are charged with making sure standards of water use and environmental quality are met within their own borders. Read the full story by Wiscontext. View the full article

In Ohio, a Cleveland company trying to build a set of wind turbines on Lake Erie filed another set of reports in the hopes of moving the process forward. Read the full story by Great Lakes Today. View the full article

Climate change and other environmental factors are more threatening to fish diversity than predators, according to new research led by Prof. Andrew MacDougall from the University of Guelph’s Department of Integrative Biology. Read the full story from Phys.org. View the full article

U.S. senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say the recently passed omnibus spending bill includes $40 million in federal funding for the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC), which is nearly $4 million more than it received last year. The funding will support the continued operations of the SLSDC as well as projects to modernize the agency’s facilities. Read the full story from North Country Now. View the full article

The Lake Erie shoreline in northwest Ohio is often considered one of the best birding sites in America with over 400 species of birds spotted annually along the Lake Erie Birding Trail, a driving trail that encompasses 312 miles of the Ohio shoreline and inland areas from Conneaut east to Toledo. Read the full story from the Urbana Daily Citizen. View the full article

A year ago, the Lake Ontario shoreline was being battered by storm-driven waves which were followed by historic flooding. Currently, Lake Ontario water levels remain high but show no signs of flooding under conditions that have been nearly ideal to minimize the risk. Read the full story by the Democrat & Chronicle. View the full article

A year ago, the Lake Ontario shoreline was being battered by storm-driven waves which were followed by historic flooding. Currently, Lake Ontario water levels remain high but show no signs of flooding under conditions that have been nearly ideal to minimize the risk. Read the full story by the Democrat & Chronicle. View the full article

Voluntary steps farmers have taken to scale back the fertilizers feeding Lake Erie’s massive algae blooms aren’t working fast enough, Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s administration said Friday while announcing a set of new proposals. Read the full story from WKBN – TV – Youngstown Ohio. View the full article

Congress passed a budget that gets us through the summer, Donald Trump has signed it, and it contains good news for the Great Lakes as Congress has mostly reversed all the bad things the Trump administration wanted to do to Michigan. Read and listen to the full story from Michigan Radio. View the full article

In northern Michigan, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard opened a 26.5-mile corridor visible on satellite photos through the ice from Bay Mills, near the Sault Ste. Marie locks, to Whitefish Point in preparation for the 2018 shipping season. Read the full story from Mlive. View the full article

The freighter American Century passed into Lake Superior early on Sunday marking the beginning of the 2018 commercial navigation season on the Upper Great Lakes and drawing hundreds of “boatnerd” fans out to watch the fanfare at Sault Ste. Marie, MI. Read the full story from Mlive. View the full article

The funding from Ontario’s Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund is meant to support restoring habitat, improve the health of lakes and rivers, clean up shorelines and strengthen water quality. Read the full story by the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal. View the full article

Male fish accumulate higher contaminant concentrations than females, but also eliminate mercury more efficiently according to Charles Madenjian, a research fishery biologist with the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio and lead author of a study investigating contaminant concentrations in fish. Read the full story by the Great Lakes Echo. View the full article

Above is the MODIS Great Lakes satellite picture from Thursday afternoon. It was clear over most of the Great Lakes, the sixth day out of the last 7 with 90% or more of possible sunshine in West Michigan. Read the full story by Wood TV – MI. View the full article

Approximately 6,000 deep draft vessels passed through the Soo Locks during the 2017-18 shipping season — hauling an estimated 80 million tons of cargo, according to Gill. Read the full story by The Sault News. View the full article

Toledo residents are right to have some concerns about the proposed Toledo Area Water Authority, but discussion over those legitimate issues is being drowned out by the chatter of regionalization opponents. Read the full story by The Blade. View the full article

When Gov. Scott Walker rescinded his nomination for a federal designation of a marine sanctuary north of Milwaukee on March 6, he caught a lot of people by surprise. Read the full story by Wisconsin Gazette. View the full article