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How One Man Changed the Ecology of the Great Lakes With Salmon
An anonymous reader writes During the sixties the Great Lakes were facing an ecological disaster due to invasive species and over fishing. Biologist Howard Tanner's solution to the problem was to bring in another non-native species, the Pacific salmon. Fishing boomed for many years but with the recent salmon crash in Lake Huron many wonder if the salmon were a band-aid on a ecological wound that's too big to fix. From the article: "Tanner's goal wasn't to just alter the species composition of the lakes; he wanted to change the public's relationship with the lakes themselves. Beyond pier fishing for perch and smallmouth bass, fishing in the lakes primarily had been the domain of relatively few commercial fishing crews using big boats and nets to harvest lake trout, perch, whitefish and chubs for restaurants and stores. But because these commercially fished native species had been so destroyed by overfishing and the lamprey and alewife infestations, Tanner inherited something of a blank slate — almost like a freshly filled reservoir in the West. He had little interest in trying to repaint the same old picture, but wanted instead to turn the waters over to large numbers of sportsmen who fished as much for thrill as fillet."
Because seriously, everything is better with lasers.
Everything
It's just the whiners. If it was an article about how slashdot moderates and scores posts with an extraterrestrial artificial intelligence package somebody would still post claiming that it's not relevant and not interesting why is this on slashdot.
You know you're going to up to your gills with people carping on about racism -- some out of ignorance, and some will do it just for the halibut.
The answer to invasive species like Asian carp is to introduce seals into the Great Lakes. Of course, you will need some polar bears to keep the seals in check.
The story sounds a little too fishy.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
A lot of people seem to think that Slashdot is only supposed to be about IT, even though IT is just the most uninteresting part of computer technology. It's the janitor part of computers.