Title Pandora's locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway / Jeff Alexander

Published East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, [2009] ©2009

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Description xxxiii, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents Prologue: Death of an Icon -- Pt. 1. Dominion -- 1. Conquering Nature -- 2. Vampires of the Deep -- 3. Salt in the Wound -- 4. Alewife Invasion -- 5. A King is Born -- Pt. 2. Plague -- 6. Fatal Error -- 7. Dangerous Cargo -- 8. The Reckoning -- 9. Ruffe Seas -- 10. Smoke and Mirrors -- 11. The Meltdown -- Pt. 3. The Dreissena Effect -- 12. Something Amuck -- 13. Blue, Green, and Deadly -- 14. A Cruel Hoax -- 15. Caspian Sea Diet -- 16. Whitefish and Green Slime -- 17. Paradox -- 18. Fear This -- Pt. 4. Betrayal -- 19. Dirty Secrets -- 20. Who's in Charge? -- 21. Mission Impossible -- 22. Seaway Heretics -- 23. Westward Ho! -- 24. Saving Paradise -- Epilogue: Hope amid the Ruins Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-416) and index Subject Biological invasions -- Great Lakes (North America) Discharge of ballast water -- Environmental aspects -- Saint Lawrence Seaway. Discharge of ballast water -- Government policy -- North America. Nonindigenous aquatic pests -- Control -- Great Lakes (North America) Nonindigenous aquatic pests -- Great Lakes (North America) LC no. 2008048261 ISBN 087013857X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780870138577 (cloth : alk. paper)

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