There is an interesting website for any of you who want to find out information about the current issues related to the Great Lakes. It is GLIN or the Great Lakes Information Network. I got the following updates recently while scrolling through their latest news blips....
** Bay Shipbuilding Co located in Green Bay filed a notice with the State of Wisconsin that it anticipates laying off as many as 405 people this Fall due to the economy...The port of Greenbay
had an economic impact of $75 million on the area last year but is anticipating a dramatic fall off this year.( This is sad news for Door County to be sure.)
** Microbes of "eco friendly bacteria" that kills invasive mussels is currently being tested in Canada to continue to search for solutions to the intense problem of zebra and other mussels being brought in by large Great Lakes vessels as they move from one lake to another. (These mussels greatly interfere with water and other intake valves in the Great Lakes. You can see piles and piles of white zebra mussel shells on the coastlines of islands in Lake Michigan. There is a also a severe decrease in fish species due to the mussels eating the plant matter that the small fish usually eat ,thus depleting both the small and large fish populations in Lake Michigan, so this is greatly affecting commercial and sport fishermen.)
** there are 228 World War II planes on the bottom of Lake Michigan( We all know there are lots of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes but i didn't think about war planes that have gone down).
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