Iowa DNR begins restocking Carter Lake
Live fish are once again swimming in southern Iowa’s Carter Lake, following a late-September fish kill intended to eliminate unwanted and harmful species. Iowa Department of Natural Resources staff dumped[…]
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Iowa DNR improves lake quality through massive fish kill
All the fish in southern Iowa’s Carter Lake have likely demised by now, exactly as planned. The lake had been filled with unwanted common carp, buffalo, and gizzard shad. These[…]
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NOAA funds research on how phosphorus drives blue-green algal blooms
A research project at the New York-based Stony Brook University aims to investigate how different kinds of phosphorus feed blooms of blue-green algae in the Great Lakes. The National Oceanic[…]
Toxic algae continues to defile water quality in the Buckeye State
“No contact” and surface scum advisories have been popping up around Ohio ever since Grand Lake St. Marys was the first Ohio state park lake this year to have such[…]
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