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    The advent of the suminoe oyster shouldn’t appear due to the fact the impacts have a huge risk of being damaging to the chesapeake bay. economically, culturally, and ecologically the chesapeake will suffer because of introducing the suminoe. for the subsequent reasons, i'm towards the creation of the suminoe oyster. Ecologically, introducing a completely new species leaves too large a possibility of bad influences that we will’t expect. the chesapeake bay software federal corporations committee…

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    Lake Winnipeg article Algae Contaminates Lake Winnipeg! Algal bloom a big issue Prabhnoor Brar, Toronto Star Lake Winnipeg is dying from algae,everyday, soap is getting dumped into sewage pipes which goes to lake winnipeg. Almost everyone helps making lake Winnipeg polluted without knowing. Most people don't even know how their polluting, but they are when the soap goes down the sewage pipes. The algae spreading was not really noticed, but when most of the fish died and fishers…

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    The most exceedingly bad offenders — alewives, ocean lampreys and zebra and quagga mussels — have demolished sustenance networks. Egan devotes 33% of the book to these intruders and scholars' ideal, and some of the time misinformed, endeavors to contain them. However, the lakes additionally confront lesser-known issues. Egan…

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    Fisheries and wildlife is a very large part of people’s lives. People do it for a living, they do it for fun, or they do it for a job. But how will we know these people will behave honestly? Well, we do have laws put in place to deter these people from misbehaving, but who’s to say they do or do not? That’s what a game and fish warden is for. They are the enforcing of these wildlife laws to help conserve all the woodland creatures and fish of the waters. They make sure someone bags 3 pheasants…

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    Duck Virtual Lab

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    1. Define introduced species. This is what you would call an invasive animal or species that have infiltrated a different ecosystem than their own. The animals can accidentally or intentionally enter a dissimilar ecosystem. 2. In this Virtual Lab, one of the introduced species did not become a problem to the area. Identify that species and explain why it did not pose a threat to the ecosystem. The experiment with the Tulips and the Vole is the situation that resulted in a non-threating…

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    The Susquehanna River is home for many: animals, fish and people alike. It is also a key contributor to the Chesapeake Bay, being the largest tributary within the watershed. The pollution of the Susquehanna directly impacts the health of the bay. To understand the importance of the river to the bay, it is necessary to understand what is causing pollution and what solutions can be introduced to lessen the negative impacts. Pennsylvania is a large participant in rural farming as well as urban…

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    Chicago River Analysis

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    Everybody loves the big city of Chicago, and knows that our drinking water comes from Lake Michigan. Well, imagine that water being filled with sewage and chemicals. That's the way that Lake Michigan used to be, and thanks to reversing the river, we will never have that problem again. A closer study of this historical event will illustrate how the workers completed this impossible sounding task, what impact this had on the Chicago people, and how reversing the river may have created more…

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    Round Goby Research Paper

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    4). The larger problem is that goby’s contaminate larger fish with zebra mussel contaminants (para. 10). In the long run the round goby eats too many aquatic organisms than the number of organisms eating them. They also impact the walleye fishing business by eating bait before anything is caught (para. 12). Finally according…

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    health and worldwide biodiversity. Invasive marine fish introductions are still considered relatively rare and historically the environmental effects are often discounted. This is different from historically famous invasive species such as the zebra mussels in The Great Lakes, which caused well-documented harmful economic and environmental effects. While these are considered rare, they have been documented, with the Indo-pacific lionfish having been documented recently along the southeastern…

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    Central Park Observation

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    lagoons and bays all make up an estuary. The lower portion of the Hudson River extends from just south of Newburgh, New York to the southern tip of Manhattan. It is an estuary, where salty seawater mixes with fresh water. Some organisms, like the zebra mussel, can't survive in salty or brackish water. They live only in the upper, freshwater portion of the river. One display asked the question: Why protect estuaries? The answer is that they provide half of the worlds commercial fish harvest.…

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