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Article: SOS for alewives!: Those smelly Lake Michigan invaders are now viewed as essential to the lake's ecosystem and the survival of the Chinook salmon.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- January 22, 2006
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Byline: James Janega
Jan. 22--With a series of new studies confirming the worst, Lake Michigan fishery managers have begun a drastic plan to save the fish species whose absence they believe would crash the lake's ecosystem.
The alewife.
There was a time when Lake Michigan was stuffed to the gills with the Atlantic invader, which washed up on beaches by the smelly ton. As strange as it may sound, fishery managers now fear a downturn last year has left the lake with too few.
Biologists blame the change on the Chinook salmon of the Pacific Northwest. The most voracious fish in the lake. The fish that feeds in the same water level as ...