Lake Erie, the world's greatest....

Author
Post
Essentials Only Full Version
KJH807
Pro Angler
  • Total Posts : 4863
  • Reward points: 0
  • Joined: 2006/11/26 19:16:17
  • Status: offline
2012/11/02 10:46:51 (permalink)

Lake Erie, the world's greatest....

...concentrated plastic pollution in the world.
 
 
“We had two samples in Lake Erie that we just kept going back and rechecking the data, because the count, the number of plastic particles in the sample, was three times greater than any sample collected anywhere in the entire world,” SUNY chemistry professor and project lead Sherri Mason said.
 
http://greatlakesecho.org/2012/10/29/the-great-lakes-have-some-of-the-worlds-greatest-concentrations-of-plastic-pollution/



#1

17 Replies Related Threads
    pafisher
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 3000
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2002/08/15 11:14:30
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 10:56:39 (permalink)
    Must be from all those plastic bottles the slobs throw down at their feet when they're empty.
    #2
    Cold
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 7358
    • Reward points: 0
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 11:20:19 (permalink)
    plastic bait containers
     
    no doubt
    #3
    D-nymph
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 6701
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2001/09/19 08:37:37
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 11:32:42 (permalink)
    Cold

    plastic bait containers

    no doubt

    Yep.  Eggsack and meal worm containers. 
     
    Bet on it.
    #4
    bigbear2010
    Expert Angler
    • Total Posts : 859
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2009/12/14 10:03:19
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 11:36:18 (permalink)
    all the pink plastic worms :)
    #5
    bulldog1
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 5203
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2008/06/05 12:23:00
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 11:48:53 (permalink)
    Guess I should quit draggin' the dipsy's on the bottom....

    Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
    #6
    CroatianSensation
    Avid Angler
    • Total Posts : 209
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2011/10/21 08:31:40
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 11:57:50 (permalink)
    There ya go!  No wonder theres NO steelhead left in the streams anymore!!
    #7
    rippinlip
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 2146
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2002/09/18 17:12:14
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 12:28:01 (permalink)
    Fly fishermen use 84.873 percent less plastic than bait dunkers and pinners.Fact.

    You should have been here yesterday.............. Streams are made for the wise man to contemplate and fools to pass by [Sir Izaak Walton]
    #8
    NotherOne
    Avid Angler
    • Total Posts : 184
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2008/09/08 20:44:35
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 12:57:07 (permalink)
    17% of the plastic content is from my reefrunners i lost in the spring trolling shallow water.
    sorry.
    #9
    D-nymph
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 6701
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2001/09/19 08:37:37
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 13:08:48 (permalink)
    NotherOne

    17% of the plastic content is from my reefrunners i lost in the spring trolling shallow water.
    sorry.



    #10
    KJH807
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 4863
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2006/11/26 19:16:17
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 13:41:59 (permalink)
    not only do the boat people steal all the fish that are intended for stream fishing....
     
    now they are a palutting too



    #11
    FiveMilePete
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 1133
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2004/10/13 21:36:32
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 15:00:44 (permalink)
    Yep, we all have to quit using Berkley microplastic baits.
    #12
    rippinlip
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 2146
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2002/09/18 17:12:14
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 15:21:43 (permalink)
    Micro plastic particles polluting our waters = the new global warming.I'm going to apply for a 10 million dollar grant. I'll get to the bottom of this.

    You should have been here yesterday.............. Streams are made for the wise man to contemplate and fools to pass by [Sir Izaak Walton]
    #13
    SteelSlayer77
    Expert Angler
    • Total Posts : 489
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2010/08/31 21:00:00
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 15:49:54 (permalink)
    "The shedding of synthetic fibers from textiles by domestic clothes washing. A comparison of microplastic particles in sewage effluent from clothes washing with the makeup of microplastics in the environment has suggested that much of the microplastic pollution sized less than 1 mm may consist of shed synthetic textile fibers." -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics
     
    I think fishing probably accounts for very little of the overall pollution.  Better stop wearing that nice warm fleece clothing, it's loaded with micro plastics as well as many other man made fibers used in clothing.   Maybe you guys with washer water that ends up in the lake should only wash your clothes once a season.  It would save on polluting the lake and also get you more elbow room on the streams at the same time! 
    post edited by SteelSlayer77 - 2012/11/02 16:03:28
    #14
    mohawksyd
    Expert Angler
    • Total Posts : 854
    • Reward points: 0
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 16:19:45 (permalink)
    SteelSlayer77

    " Maybe you guys with washer water that ends up in the lake should only wash your clothes once a season. 

     
    Wait a minute!  We can WASH them?!


    "For the supreme test of a fisherman is not how many fish he has caught...but what he has caught when he has caught no fish." - John H. Bradley

    #15
    Hummer82
    Avid Angler
    • Total Posts : 187
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2009/05/05 21:31:12
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/02 21:22:11 (permalink)
    It would roll your stomach if you guys knew how much litter ends up in the trash boom of millcreek and cascade. Its a full time job to keep it maintenanced.
    #16
    CU@theriver
    Avid Angler
    • Total Posts : 114
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2009/09/27 14:44:28
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/05 08:51:38 (permalink)
    asian carp will filter out those particles
    not funny
    #17
    cooljauman
    Pro Angler
    • Total Posts : 1633
    • Reward points: 0
    • Joined: 2008/08/06 11:12:13
    • Location: 84lt1m0r3
    • Status: offline
    Re:Lake Erie, the world's greatest.... 2012/11/05 15:40:14 (permalink)
    Cold

    plastic bait containers

    no doubt

     
    You are still the man.
     
    no doubt

    If the world needed and enema, they'd put the tube in Philadelphia. Go Pens!

    Evgeni Malkin: I'M SCORE

    S.D.S.G.F.C.
    #18
    Jump to: