Category: Great Lakes
Citizens aiding police, Coast Guard in search for missing Lake Erie boater
The search continues for a boater who didn’t return to Port Burwell when expected Tuesday, prompting a massive air and water search that continued Wednesday, including police, firefighters, local citizens and Coast Guard crews from both sides of the border.
Chantry fishing ‘was fantastic,’ chair says at close of derby
The salmon were chunky, the bait fish plentiful and about as many people fished the Chantry Chinook Salmon Derby this year as in pre-COVID times, derby chair Mike Hahn said Sunday. Top fish were caught by Mark Aljoe of Durham, with his 26.44-pound Chinook salmon on Aug. 1, and by Gaige Jackson of Saugeen Shores, […]
Letters to the Editor: July 27, 2022
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Expert to summertime swimmers: Beware Great Lakes’ deadly rip currents
Summer has barely begun and the Great Lakes have already claimed 47 lives through drownings this year, according to the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, which also pegs the number of rescues of people plucked from the water at 12 so far in 2022.
Government urged to do more to protect water from plastics
A Canadian advocacy group is calling on the federal government to protect Great Lakes water from plastic pollution.