- Date
- 2010-10
- Kind
- Observation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- wildlifeenvironmentfishingconservationcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The October 2010 Beacon warned that quagga mussels and burbot could affect the Great Lakes food web and large fish. It specifically located a reported burbot concentration near a lake-trout planting area between Beaver Island and the Leelanau Peninsula.
Evidence limits
This preserves the newspaper’s warning as source-bounded environmental communication; it is not an independent population survey, causal study, or management decision.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, October 2010, "Burbot Alert."Reports an attributed warning about quagga mussels' effects on plankton and large fish and about burbot congregating near a lake-trout planting area; the article does not provide a study citation or population survey. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the warning article.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Beacon warns about burbot and quagga-mussel threats, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-burbot-quagga-mussel-warning-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2010, "Burbot Alert." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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