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• Forecast Calls for Windy City Winter Blues
• Invasive Mussel Impacts: It’s Complicated
• Nearshore Food Web is an East-west Story
• Student Scientists Explore Real-world Issues
• New Tool Helps Planners Steer Clear of Tipping Points

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• It’s Time to Celebrate Grand Calumet River and Roxanna Marsh Cleanup
• Bringing AIS Information to Boat Ramps
• Location is Key to Yellow Perch Diet and Success
• Natural Lawncare

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• Lake Zurich Dips into Water Supply Planning
• New Project to Market Asian Carp
• Seed Grant Funding Helps Research Bloom
• IISG Expands Program Staff

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• Living Near Waterways Can Be a Plus or Minus
• IISG Fellow Finds Fish Consumption Advisories Effective
• Lake Michigan Becomes the Classroom for COSEE Teacher Workshop
• Aquatic Invaders Website Spreads Beyond the Internet

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• To Build or Not to Build: New Online Resource Aids Local Planners
• Disinfecting Drinking Water Can Create Toxic By-products
• SOLEC Provides the Latest Great Lakes Health Report
• Reconnecting Fish Habitat Key to River Restoration

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• Pharmwaste: A Prescription for Troubled Waters
• Moving Forward with New Leadership
• One Stop Shopping for Great Lakes Information
• Educators Get Immersed in Great Lakes Issues
• Vitamin E Relieves the Effects of Aquaculture Stress

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• The Troubled Youth of Yellow Perch
• Great Lakes Monitoring Provides Management Cues
• Consortium to Plan for Tri-state Water Supply
• Find Your Niche in Aquaculture
• New IISG Research Addresses Coastal Concerns
• Camping Out with Sea Grant
• New Curriculum Guide Premiers in Chicago
• Reporting New Aquatic Invaders is a Mouse Click Away

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• Growing Communities Plan to Protect Natural Resources
• New Fisheries Leadership School in Session
• Eurasian Ruffe May Increase Pressure on Lake Michigan Perch
• ESCAPE Provides Ideal Tool for Mentoring Teachers
• Control of Purple Loosestrife Now a National 4-H Project
• Reel in the Latest Fish Consumption Advisories
• Tracking Toxic Mercury in Polluted Waters

If you fish in the Great Lakes region and eat your catch, this pamphlet will help you reduce your risk of consuming contaminated fish and introduce you to some of the facts of PCBs. Note: file includes English, Spanish, Polish, and Chinese translations.