oxygen is essential for life and so hypoxic bottom water regions are often referred to as "dead zones." Hypoxia is bad news for lake whitefish that prefer the cold bottom water of Lake Erie ...

create oxygen-starved dead zones that kill marine life, spoil swimming, boating and tourism and endanger human health. Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria to thrive: It's about ...

As the colder months approach and Erie prepares for the winter season, the water levels in Lake Eriee are still dropping as projected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In September, the water ...

Walleye can live 20 years and occasionally longer in Lake Erie, which indicates how long the impact of a single strong hatch can endure.

That’s surely the case for our Lake Erie, where green (or blue ... (Green algae can still cause problems, like dead zones in the lake, however.) Wind blew that algae past Toledo toward Cleveland, then ...

There are plenty of opportunities for angling “treats” in area waterways as mild weather continues to enable anglers to get on our Great Lakes.

OREGON, Ohio — On a warm late-summer evening, a small speedboat motored across a pea-green stretch of Lake Erie past a beach ... create oxygen-starved dead zones that kill marine life, spoil ...

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria to thrive: It’s about 30 feet deep, the shallowest part of the shallowest Great Lake, and it heats up faster when temperatures are warm.