the four lower lakes especially Erie will become muddy carp wallows. Superior with its colder waters and greater depth will fare better.

Sadly, only for a little time longer than the other lakes. The carp would eat slower, metabolize slower, and grow slower, but they will overcome and wipe out everything in all the lakes.

that Asian carp will not likely become established in Lake Superior(LS).

They spawn in slow long warm (about 64 f and above) rivers, the eggs then drift down into the lakes. The Superior basin lacks that type of spawning habitat.

LS also lacks shallow and warm habitat that the carp need to live in when not spawning.

They food primarily on phytoplankton. LS is deficient in that regard, deep cold fresh waters are low fertility. The food supply in the open waters is deficient.

They slow their feeding as water temps drop and stop altogether below about 36 f. The average temperature of LS even in the Summer is 45 f.

Somewhere between 880,000 and a 1,000,000 gallons of heavy tar oil from Canada were released into the river. To date it has cost almost $1.5 billion to clean up and problems remain. A spill in the Mackinac Straits would a disaster of epic proportions.

owns and maintains(or doesn't) Line 5.

They'll all look like Erie soon. The green in the picture is NOT a healthy color...

It is green because the western basin is shallow. It is warm and the preserved wetlands to the south of the complete the food and breeding cycles of the species.

Environmental regs helped tremendously to cleanup the great lakes since I grew up there

For anyone who doubts there are serious environmental problems:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/toxic-algae-in-lake-erie-what-you-need-to-know/

Now it's up to the Michigan non-Trump voters to kick the shit out of their Trumpkin neighbors.

Hope y'all enjoy the republican sponsored release of Asian Carp into the lakes to fuck them up FOREVER assholes!

Morons!

And more of Trumps Path of Destruction of the USA!




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Too many dead fish. And, of course, there was the famous Cuyahoga River fire. I don't understand why the cash benefit of discontinuing regulations trumps (pun intended) clean water and clean air. You can't breath money.

I moved away, but came back in 80's,90's and 2000's and each time I walked the shores of Lake Ontario feeling thankful for fresh air, clean shorelines with no dead fish, and clarity of water

Most Repubs take for granted the improvements in air and water quality due to environmental regs. that they are determined to abolish or not enforce

I remember going on family picnics to the shores of Lake Erie and not being allowed to get even a big toe wet.

We used to dash through the Lake Ontario surf line littered with carcasses to reach the water. Good Times. One of my earliest childhood memories.

I don't know if this was the whole lake, but it affected the near Chicago beaches and those near NW Indiana - in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Like the nightmarish pictures of teh Cuyahoga river, they were part of the impetus of the environmental movement that led to earth day.

the ones left behind will be stuck in a failed economy with polluted water and sick children and blame immigrants.

I am so disappointed in my home state (PA) and the others who cut off their nose to spite their face.

evryday a new horor from trump and company

Full list here: http://www.4cleanair.org/news#news-16805 3/

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Goodbye to oysters. Say hello to more fish consumption bans.

This is heartbreaking. I have spent most of my life near the Great Lakes. The fresh water contained in the Great Lakes is an invaluable resource. Almost surprised they did not propose privatizing the lakes...but then Canada would have something to say about that.

to pay for all the beach closed signs.

But this puke will spend $20 billion+ for a useless wall.

over the Great Lake, we'll just call them Trump Carp.