In November, an unusual swarm of tiny critters caught the attention of a crewmember on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration boat docked in a Lake Michigan channel. He asked Steven Pothoven of NOAA’s Great Lakes environmental field station at Muskegon, Mich., what the critters were.
STOWAWAY. This tiny European mysid shrimp could spell big problems for the Great Lakes, where it’s just been spotted.
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