Ooooooh no, my little friend. To me the question is, does anyone who listens to All Things Considered, OR reads the Straight Dope ( or both. Venn Diagram !!! 
) believe for one SECOND that this man’s name really is Orion Briney ???
Please. C’mon. Sit a moment. Have a cool drink. Here, let me put this cool damp cloth across your sweaty brow. See? All better.
Briney. -snerk-
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Great whites love killing dolphins, you know.
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Cite?
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My partner will sneak up behind me and do the Jaws theme then pinch my neck. She knows all the hairs on my body will stand on end. Cruel woman.
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You Sir are a lucky man!
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the question now is: how long before the Asian Carp gets protected to save American jobs?
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As long as they stay in the Illinois river, well it’s too late to do anything about it, but the predictions that I’ve read about what could happen if the Asian Carp makes it’s way into Lake Michigan say it could decimate the commerical salmon and lake trout fisheries, which are much bigger than any market for Flying Water Rats could ever be. I don’t think they’ll ever protect them in any real way.
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The harvesting of sturgeon (at least in the Midwest) is heavily controlled and regulated. They require a special separate tag (I think it’s $100 in Wisconsin), and you can only harvest one a year. Most of the species are endangered,so there isn’t really a lucrative market for their eggs.
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For the record, and in spite of the name of my town, sturgeon have been extinct in Lake Michigan/Huron for over a century. Lake Winnebago has been stocked with sturgeon, however. I don’t know why Michigan hasn’t – it is regularly stocked with such non-indigenous fish as salmon.
Maybe it’s because sturgeon are ugly-looking.
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I still won’t swim in the deep end of a pool at night. Night swimming in a lake? Forget it.
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My Uncle enjoyed pointing out the large snapping turtles that lived in the lake, and how they could “take your foot clean-off with one bite”, if they felt like it. Now, I can’t go in the lake without thinking about those damn turtles.
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For the record, and in spite of the name of my town, sturgeon have been extinct in Lake Michigan/Huron for over a century. Lake Winnebago has been stocked with sturgeon, however. I don’t know why Michigan hasn’t – it is regularly stocked with such non-indigenous fish as salmon.
Maybe it’s because sturgeon are ugly-looking.
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I’ll agree that there are more asthetically pleasing fish out there, but make no mistake, there are still remnant populations of lake sturgeon swimming in Lake Michigan.
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Cite?
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Glad to ! 
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I will admit it is not common by any means, and so I withdraw the implication that my statement made. However, great white sharks do attack and eat dolphins, as cited.
Cartooniverse
Some interesting facts:
You can get from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario through Lake Simcoe via theTrent-Severn Waterway, thus bypassing the Falls.
A shark coming up the Mississippi River can access Lake Michigan through the Chiago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
You may be able to traverse Northern Ontario rivers from Lake Nipigon up to Hudson Bay (I had a road map that claimed this was possible, but have no substantial proof). I think a previous poster made this claim as well, so I’d be interested in a cite with further detail.
I’d also like further detail on the claim regarding crossing the Continental Divide at Lake Isa.
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I will admit it is not common by any means, and so I withdraw the implication that my statement made. However, great white sharks do attack and eat dolphins, as cited.
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I watched a program on the Discovery channel a few years back that said that dolphins are the main food source for sharks in the Mediterranean Sea.