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Credit: Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP |
Cleaner water could have negative impacts on certain types of fish in Lake Erie, a study by researchers at Ohio State and other universities found.
Stuart Ludsin, an Ohio State professor of ecology and co-author of the study, calls supervising nutrient levels in Lake Erie a “wicked management problem.” Reducing the nutrients like phosphorus makes the water cleaner and reduces harmful algal blooms and low-oxygen areas called “dead zones.” |
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That’s good for some fish species, like lake whitefish or walleye. Lake whitefish live on the bottom of the lake and their food supply is affected by low-oxygen dead zones, Ludsin said. |
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