Fish from the lakes can be safe to eat, but species, size and location matter.
After decades of monitoring the Great Lakes ecosystem, the Canadian and U.S governments still have only limited knowledge of the status of human and wildlife health in the Great Lakes and do not know whether that status is improving or getting worse.
This has been a remarkable year for Great Lakes protection. As 2008 comes to a close, we reflect on some of the achievements citizens and organizations across the region deserve to celebrate.
With remediation activity completed, the push is on to delist Torch Lake as an Area of Concern. But with millions of tons of sediment still contaminated, delisting this site before these sediments are buried by natural processes may be hasty.