Plans for steep increases in the cost of Michigan hunting and fishing licenses -- proposed by the Natural Resources Commission and included in Gov. Jennifer Granholm's budget earlier this month -- have been shelved for lack of support, according to state officials.

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Think of it as recreational murder-suicide.

Two of the area's most popular summer pastimes may be close to extinction.

Fishing will die when viral hemorrhagic septicemia kills the fish in Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River and Lake Huron.

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A Michigan company says it thinks it may have a promising solution to fight a huge Great Lakes problem -- invasive species dumped from the ballast of oceangoing ships.

EcologiQ, a Troy firm, hopes a tiny form of yeast it has patented can rid ships of dangerous invasive organisms that lurk in their ballast tanks by starving them of oxygen.

When ships travel without cargo, they take on water for stability. When they take on cargo, they discharge the water from their tanks.

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Students from Credit View public school left their mark in conservation history as they teamed up with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters and its partners to help bring back Atlantic salmon to Lake Ontario.

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