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Article: Let's keep fish virus rules, DNR says
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2007
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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is hoping to make
permanent this summer's emergency rules to block the spread of a
fish-killing virus that mysteriously popped up in Lake Winnebago
this spring.
Nobody knows how viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, arrived in
the Great Lakes region, though many suspect that the virus somehow
hitched a ride on an oceangoing freighter. It has been migrating
west since it was first discovered in Lake Ontario in 2005. It does
not pose a threat to humans, but it has been blamed for large-scale
fish die-offs across the Great Lakes region.
Wisconsin officials last winter were bracing for its arrival in