The Great Lakes have been impacted in some good and bad ways. People have helped the great lakes number of chemicals and invasive species go down, they have built barriers to keep invasive species out of the Great Lakes. Pollution has impacted the great lakes. A way of pollution is from alwifes, alwifes die off during the spring which makes bugs come and eat them. The article says, “ Alewifes die off during the spring, Every year, tons of dead alwifes wash up on lake beaches. Cloud of flies lay on the rotting fish. Soon, the smelly fish are riddled with maggots. As a result, most beaches are unbearable during the die-off season.” People have been helping the Great Lakes by putting other invasive species, like salmon to help die down the number
