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Article: GREAT LAKES, GREAT PERIL BIOLOGICAL POLLUTION; Ecological problem, economic distress; Lake Huron's salmon, an exotic species planted annually to feed the sport fishing industry, have all but disappeared in just four years. Signs are surfacing that Lake Michigan could be headed in a similar direction. This should worry more than fishermen.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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Harbor Beach, Mich. -- When charter boat captains tell tales of
their most memorable catches, odds are you can trim a few pounds off
the size of the fish they're boasting about.
Not so with Janice Deaton.
The Harbor Beach, Mich., captain isn't bragging when she talks
about landing a 2-foot-long salmon in Lake Huron. She's grieving.
She's talking about a fish that "looked more like a snake than a
fish," a fish so skinny she could wrap a single hand around its
slimy belly.
Deaton's charter business on the eastern coast of Michigan
wobbles at the top of what's left of a Lake Huron food chain that
started to collapse about four years ago. She says she's the last
full-time charter boat operator ...