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Salmon caught off the wall narrowly misses the big prize as derby wraps up in Owen Sound

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Terry Kirkland of Allenford reeled in the biggest fish of the 37th Annual Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular with his 25.57-lb. Chinook. The 10-day derby wrapped up at noon on Sunday. Tim Colborne of Owen Sound finished atop the lake trout division with a 23.93-lb catch. Andrew Dimis won the rainbow trout division with a 10.88-lb […]

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Trump’s budget would devastate sea lamprey control in Great Lakes

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By Maya Moore 
If Congress approves President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes environmental restoration will be significantly diminished, experts say.   Among the programs that could be dismantled entirely is the 70-year-old program to control sea lampreys, an exotic parasitic fish that attacks game fish and has caused billions of dollars in damage to Great Lakes fisheries.

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