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CONSERVATION

Humans have impacted lakes in positive and negative way. Something positive is that they are helping to kill off all the Asian Carp in Lake Michigan. Due to there large size and rapid reproduction they hold a significant risk to the Great Lakes ecosystem. Asian Carp eat all the other fishes food which makes them die of hunger. The negative impact is that people leave there garbage on the lake shore and it washes into the lake, causing a risk to animal life. Also the water is too dirty for recreation. Oil dumps into the water and makes it unsanitary.

A problem humans need to address is that workers dump oil and harsh chemicals into the water. Workers don't have anywhere else to dump there oil. Soon people will not be able to swim and the fish will all die away.Also if humans do not get rid of the Asian Carp, it will eat all the fish and we will have none for food. They will also destroy the recreational pastime of fishing.

To solve these problems, first, the workers could reuse there oil and use it for other things. They could try dumping it in an ecosystem that wouldn't react as bad to the chemicals. For the Asian Carp, humans should get together and all work to capture and kill the Asian Carp. If they get rid of the Asian Carp, then there will be a bigger population of fish and other animals in lakes. People should try as hard as possible to kill away all the Asian Carp!



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