Here's a great new tool out of the regional office of the Izaak Walton League that the entire Great Lakes environmental community should adopt and expand. What better way to pressure for cleanup than by identifying fish kills and closed beaches?
This program has compiled data for each state going back over 20 years, and it is now available in a customizable online search. Users can search over 700 Minnesota event records, or over 5000 regional records, based on variables like date, county, or stream name. New records are posted regularly.
The FKAN program also creates state maps of this information, showing event statistics for each county. These maps include the number fish kills or manure spills, the total number of fish killed, and the cause of the events. Maps are downloadable from the website.