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Article: FOOD SOURCE FOR GREAT LAKES FISH DYING OUT
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- United Press International
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- December 18, 2003
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United Press International
12-18-2003
Food source for Great Lakes fish dying out
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec 18, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Whitefish in the Great Lakes are getting thinner because their main food source, the diporeia, a half-inch-long, shrimp-like creature, is disappearing.
Biologists at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., have found the diporeia, considered the freshwater shrimp, have been wiped out in portions of Lake Erie, Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario -- about 17,000 square miles.
Some of the whitefish caught now are much smaller and studies on their stomachs have found that the fish have ...