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Lake trout are on life support in Lake Michigan.Every year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spends tens of millions of dollars raising and stocking them.But what if there was another way? Genetic engineering is advancing fast. Could it be used for conservation?
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Lake trout are on life support in Lake Michigan.Every year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spends tens of millions of dollars raising and stocking them.But what if there was another way? Genetic engineering is advancing fast. Could it be used for conservation?
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Sea Lamprey is largely under control thanks to an international treaty, a specialized pesticide and millions of dollars from the U.S. and Canada. But, Canada hasn’t been paying its full share for over a decade.
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Sea Lamprey is largely under control thanks to an international treaty, a specialized pesticide and millions of dollars from the U.S. and Canada. But, Canada hasn’t been paying its full share for over a decade.
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In a dim, out-of-the-way corner of the state fish hatchery in Marquette are a few thousand skinny, grey fish, each no more than nine inches long. “They…
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The nationwide shutdown was especially ill-timed for fishers in the Great Lakes. Many deal in lake whitefish, a species that dwells in cold waters. The…
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has crafted a new plan to address double-crested cormorant conflicts in the US. It proposes killing as many as 77,000…
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Of the nearly 2,600 dams in Michigan, more than 90% are going to hit or exceed their design life in 2020, according to a 2014 report. Among those is the…
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Dams hurt native fish by blocking their access to rivers — but removing dams to let the fish through would open the way for invasive species.A…
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A new nonprofit is training citizen scientists to collect data on fish in the Great Lakes, which could be a game changer for research in the region and…