Ten years ago, people who lived in Mackinac County called Brevort Lake the Dead Sea, an ironic reference to a once-thriving perch fishery that had been wiped out by an onslaught of fish-eating birds called cormorants.

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A series of fishing regulations signed by Department of Natural Resources Director Rebecca Humphries recently are designed to enlist anglers and the bait industry as allies to slow the spread of fish diseases, particularly Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS). The regulations go into effect on June 28.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed a measure that allows Indiana to join a regional compact intended to prevent water-hungry states from tapping into the Great Lakes.The General Assembly had approved the bill that protects water from being siphoned out of the Great Lakes watershed to drought-stricken states or areas that need water to continue their growth.

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A virus that has killed tens of thousands of fish in the eastern Great Lakes appears headed for Lake Michigan, where wildlife experts fear it could threaten the sport-fishing industry. Viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS _ which causes anemia and hemorrhaging in infected fish _ was detected earlier this year in fish in an area of northern Lake Huron, about 20 miles from Lake Michigan.

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