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Forget about the potential damage by invasive Asian carp, another invasive species, the quagga mussel is likely to destroy the Lake Michigan ecosystem long before the bottom-feeding fish do. That's the word of Michigan Tech biologist W. Charles Kerfoot, who says the proliferating mussels are eating up so much phytoplankton that, through an interesting chain of events, hypoxic dead zones could be created, with disastrous results.
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