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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:30 am
 


Title: While the world's lakes dry up, Lake Manitoba expands
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2011-06-04 09:34:57
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Curtman better watch out, we'll be coming with canteens real soon ! :)


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:12 pm
 


How much are Canada's great Lakes endangered by Asian Carp?


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:32 pm
 


martin14 martin14:
Curtman better watch out, we'll be coming with canteens real soon ! :)


No thanks.. We're good.

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In stark contrast, Lake Manitoba -- officially the planet's 33rd-largest inland body of water -- is expanding to the point where it may have already overtaken Ontario's Lake Nipigon (No. 32) and what's now called the South Aral Sea (No. 31).


Those are hydro electric dollars accumulating.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:32 pm
 


GreenTiger GreenTiger:
How much are Candada's great Lakes endangered by Asian Carp?


Never heard of them.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:09 pm
 


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A thin, underwater "electric fence" in a canal near Chicago, and vigilance by governments and citizens, are all that prevent a group of invasive fish species from disrupting aquatic ecosystems across the Great Lakes.

Four species of Asian carp, the grass, bighead, silver, and black, could readily move from the United States into Canada. Freshwater fisheries scientist Nick Mandrak, of the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (GLLFAS) in Burlington, Ontario, says that "people tend to think of Asian carp as semi-tropical. But I've seen them thriving under a metre of ice in frozen Russian lakes. They could survive right across Canada. And they can do great damage."





PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:28 pm
 


I think what we all want to know is:

How do they taste?


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:35 pm
 


Curtman Curtman:
I think what we all want to know is:

How do they taste?



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:42 pm
 


That Darwin guy should never have invented Evolution. It's all gone downhill since then.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:37 pm
 


Curtman Curtman:
That Darwin guy should never have invented Evolution. It's all gone downhill since then.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:29 pm
 


While the lakes in Manitoba are currently spilling over their shores, this expansion could ultimately mean their death. The problem is that they, and the rivers(Red, Souris and Assiniboine to name but a few) are silting up and the water has no place else to go but over the shoreline and into the surrounding land. These lakes are getting shallower(even as a kid I could walk out about 1/2 a mile and the water only came up to mid calf) with larger surface areas which in the end, that means higher rates of evaporation if the summers prove to be hotter. I've had a few friends around Dauphin who've lost their cottages at Ochre Beach and Crescent Cove this past week when they had a windstorm....all the sandbagging was pointless and the EMO is telling them to take any valuables out of their homes and cottages now.

Bewtween silting and agricultural run off and sewage, the lakes are dying.





PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:17 pm
 


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Bewtween silting and agricultural run off and sewage, the lakes are dying.


Yep.. Lake Agassiz is dead already.


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