Steve Rinella

This last-ditch effort that I read about, it's a good website.

If anyone wants to read more, these guys have really covered this for years now and done a good job.

It's called BridgeMichigan.com.

Really, really did an excellent job covering all this stuff.

But the Michigan State Senate is trying to get some money.

an appropriations bill was right now they just have like a placeholder amount of like a hundred bucks.

And like, if it goes through or it goes farther, they'll like actually put a number to it.

And something I, one number I heard is like 50 million over the next 10 years.

So they're looking for a lot of money to do some, to do some research on this.

Um, research and their idea of how to save them now, or at least part of it.

Cause there's, I guess there's specific strains within the great lakes that are doing, uh, worse than others.

And they're thinking of actually taking them out and then rearing them in hatcheries and then being able to hold on to some stock to then be able to repopulate the Great Lakes once.

The issue that I'm going to tell you about now is taken care of, which is the mussels.

Yeah, like a seed bank.

Yeah, exactly.

Sounds like a good place.

It's somewhere in there.

So the mussels that are the big problem right now, they're, one guy I talked to pretty much said that if it's not sand and it's in less than 50 feet of water in Huron or Michigan, it's probably got a mussel on it.

And not like a mussel, but covering, like it's a coating of mussels.

What these mussels do is that they filter the entire volume of lake here on Lake Michigan every two weeks.