Great Lakes Daily News

A federal judge has ruled that an Elk Rapids, Michigan, food processing company illegally polluted wetlands and tributaries that drain to Elk Lake and ultimately to Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay. Read the full story by MLive.

American shippers are at odds with the Canadian government over its regulations that require all Great Lakes vessels or “lakers” to install systems to treat their ballast water by 2030. The systems are aimed at preventing the spread of invasive species through ballast water that’s taken up or discharged by ships at Great Lakes ports when they load and unload cargo. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

Two Michigan Congressional delegates have introduced bipartisan legislation that would devote $500 million over the next decade to battling invasive quagga and zebra mussels, which have destabilized the Great Lakes food web and driven whitefish populations toward collapse. Read the full story by MLive.

A Lake Superior shoreline restoration project is nearing completion in Marquette, Michigan. The Superior Watershed Partnership began the project in 2017 with $2 million in funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a $2.5 million National Coastal Resiliency grant that the city of Marquette is matching. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission on Tuesday held its first collection of steelhead trout of the season along Trout Run at Avonia Beach in Avonia, Pennsylvania. Fish eggs from five female trout are combined with milt from three male trout, fertilizing the eggs to become the next generation of steelhead trout in Lake Erie. Read the full story by WJET-TV – Erie, PA.

It was 67 years ago Tuesday that the SS Carl D. Bradley sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan near Beaver Island, claiming the lives of thirty-three men. On Saturday, between 100 and 150 people attended a bell-ringing ceremony at the Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum in Rogers City, Michigan, to remember the crew. Read the full story by WCMU – Mount Pleasant, MI.

A U.S.-based cruise company won’t be launching its new Great Lakes itineraries out of Cleveland next year as originally planned, opting instead to launch from Buffalo, New York. Toledo will be the cruise company’s only port call in Ohio. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has several improvements underway in Erie, including a plan to increase the number of steelhead trout it produces and a new vessel. Read the full story by Erie-Times News.

Stanton Yards, a Detroit riverfront development, aims to be a gathering place where people find inspiration in art and reconnect with nature through the transformation of the former Gregory Marina.  Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

New research reveals how gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan seasonally alter their habitat preferences to align with beavers’ habitat preferences, a shift that might have implications for the island’s ecosystem. Read the full story by Capital News Service.