Zounds! What is the Cladophora
growing on? Couldn’t tell from the photo.
From:
owner-beachnet@great-lakes.net [mailto:owner-beachnet@great-lakes.net] On Behalf Of Richard L Whitman
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008
12:49 PM
To: beachnet@great-lakes.net
Subject: BEACHNET==> Incredible
picture of submerged Cladophora
Attached is a photo of NPS divers in 20+ feet of
water on the bottom of
Lake Michigan off Sleeping Bear Dunes showing Cladophora dominating the
bottom.
Photo from
Brenda Moraska Lafrancois.
The
occurrence of Cladophora and possible association of pathogenic bacteria is
currently being investigated by several investigators