Reply #8: Five hundred sea-going vessels a year really may not be that [View All]

[amandabeech]

much compared to the damage being done in the Lakes.

If all sea-going ships had to off-load or on-load cargo in the St. Lawrence river at Montreal to rail, then contaminated ships could not penetrate the lakes. If required, the rail cards could be loaded onto railroad ferries based in Lake Ontario or their contents could be reloaded into bulk carrying lower lakers. Also, the lock and dam system between Montreal and Lake Ontario could be eliminated, which also would decrease the rate at which invaders would make it into the Lakes by swimming up the St. Lawrence. I doubt that would happen, though.

Perhaps the Great Lakes states should pool their money with Canada for research into how to control the population of the mussels and lamprey, since the U.S. Gov. doesn't appear interested, will not since Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and New York are blue states, and northern Ohio and far northeastern Indiana are also blue.