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Federal Firings Threaten Great Lakes’ $5 Billion Fishery
Cuts to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could unintentionally thwart efforts to control populations of the destructive sea lamprey eel.
By Anika Jane Beamer
Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey eel that threatens fish across the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest freshwater ecosystem.