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These half-inch-long, shrimp-like diporeia are the staple food for whitefish. Zebra and quagga mussels are consuming vast quantities of plankton, diporeia's food source, making diporeia scarce. They are already gone from Lake Erie, and declining at alarming rates from lakes Michigan, Ontario, and Huron, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports. (Photograph from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
These half-inch-long, shrimp-like diporeia are the staple food for whitefish. Zebra and quagga mussels are consuming vast quantities of plankton, diporeia's food source, making diporeia scarce. They are already gone from Lake Erie, and declining at alarming rates from lakes Michigan, Ontario, and Huron, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports. (Photograph from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
