WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michigan Congressional delegates have introduced bipartisan legislation that would devote $500 million over the next decade to battling invasive quagga and zebra mussels, which have destabilized the Great Lakes food web driven whitefish populations toward collapse.

U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Ann Arbor, and Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, unveiled the Save the Great Lakes Fish Act this week, calling the effort as a long-overdue federal push to confront invasive mussels, which now blanket the Great Lakes bottom by the trillions.

The bill would amend the Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956 and authorize agencies such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to work with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission,

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