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- Snakehead : a fish out of water / by Dolin, Eric Jay.(CARDINAL)327211;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261)."This is the story of the "Frankenfish," the "pit bull with fins," the "fish from hell"--An invasive species that went from obscurity to fame, becoming front-page news and the topic of one of David Letterman's Top Ten lists in the summer of 2002.""The northern snakehead, a species native to Asia, was released into a suburban pond in Crofton, Maryland, sometime around the year 2000. It multiplied rapidly, and when anglers caught two adults a few years later, natural resources officials from the state and federal government responded aggressively with SWAT teams of biologists. Then a media frenzy to cover the story quickly ensued. Many people feared that the sinister beast, with big teeth and bigger appetites, would escape into local rivers and then on to the Chesapeake Bay, devouring all creatures in its path. Making the seemingly unstoppable snakehead scarier still were its reported abilities to walk on land and breathe air. Even the U.S. Secretary of the Interior said that the snakehead was "like something from a bad horror movie."" "Many of the dangers posed by the snakehead were exaggerated. But the efforts to eradicate it continued as did the public's fascination with the story. Newspapers, magazines, and television and radio stations across the country and around the world covered every step in the battle against the slippery foreign invaders, transforming the summer of 2002 into the summer of the snakehead. The pond that gave birth to the snakehead phenomenon was eventually sealed off and poisoned until it looked as if finally the dreaded snakehead had been slain."--Jacket.- Subjects: Northern snakehead; Nonindigenous aquatic pests; Fish pests;
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- Invasive aquatic and wetland plants : field guide / by Kay, Stratford H.(CARDINAL)200571;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Nonindigenous aquatic pests; Aquatic pests; Noxious weeds; Invasive plants;
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- The death and life of the Great Lakes / by Egan, Dan,author.(CARDINAL)353975;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-347) and index.PART ONE: The front door. Carving a fourth seacoast : dreams of a seaway ; Three fish : the story of lake trout, sea lampreys and alewives ; The world's great fishing hole : the introduction of coho and chinook salmon ; Noxious cargo : the invasion of zebra and quagga mussels -- PART TWO: The back door. Continental undivide : Asian carp and Chicago's backwards river ; Conquering a continent : the mussel infestation of the West ; North America's "dead" sea : toxic algae and the threat to Toledo's water supply -- PART THREE: The future. Plugging the drain : the never-ending threat to siphon away Great Lakes water ; A shaky balancing act : climate change and the fall and rise of the lakes ; A Great Lake revival : charting a course toward integrity, stability and balance -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Illustratin credits -- Index."The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come. For thousands of years the pristine Great Lakes were separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the roaring Niagara Falls and from the Mississippi River basin by a "sub-continental divide." Beginning in the late 1800s, these barriers were circumvented to attract oceangoing freighters from the Atlantic and to allow Chicago's sewage to float out to the Mississippi. These were engineering marvels in their time--and the changes in Chicago arrested at deadly cycle of waterborne illnesses--but they have had horrendous unforeseen consequences. Egan provides a chilling account of how sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels and other invaders have made their way into the lakes, decimating native species and largely destroying the age-old ecosystem. And because the lakes are no longer isolated, the invaders now threaten water intake pipes, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure across the country. Egan also explores why outbreaks of toxic algae stemming from the overapplication of farm fertilizer have left massive biological "dead zones" that threaten the supply of fresh water. He examines fluctuations in the levels of the lakes caused by manmade climate change and overzealous dredging of shipping channels. And he reports on the chronic threats to siphon off Great Lakes water to slake drier regions of America or to be sold abroad. In an age when dire problems like the Flint water crisis or the California drought bring ever more attention to the indispensability of safe, clean, easily available Water, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is a powerful paean to what is arguably our most precious resource, an urgent examination of what threatens it and a convincing call to arms about the relatively simple things we need to do to protect it."- Subjects: Lake ecology; Introduced organisms; Nonindigenous aquatic pests; Water quality;
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- Great Lakes shipping, trade, and aquatic invasive species / by National Research Council (U.S.).Committee on the St. Lawrence Seaway:Options to Eliminate Introduction of Nonindigenous Species into the Great Lakes, Phase 2.(CARDINAL)308953;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Nonindigenous aquatic pests; Discharge of ballast water; Animal introduction; Ballast water;
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