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After a series of circumstances that have kept maritime fans off the boat for much of the last several years, the William A. Irvin is open to visitors as of 10 am Friday, May 21.
This marks the start of their first full season since repairs were made to the Irvin, which included towing the ship to Fraser Shipyards in Superior where it spent time in dry dock for repair.
The Irvin was eased out of the Minnesota Slip in September 2018, repairs to hull corrosion were made, and it was returned to its Canal Park Home in mid-October 2019. Due to the repair project, followed by the pandemic in 2020, the Irvin hasn t seen visitors for a good few years.
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The docks will stay in the slip until early October.
April 22, 2021
About ten docks with twenty boat spaces went in within four hours.
The other half of the marina being owned by Grandma’s Corporation.
Managers of the marina say, Because of the warmer temps, the docks were able to be placed back into the slip a week earlier than normal.
“About 80% of our docks are taken by charter fishing,” Minnesota Slip Marina Manager, Dan Meierhoff says. “Charter fishing guys are really excited to get their boats back in the water and start their fishing for the season.”
After years of measuring mercury in the estuary muck, in the fish and in the rain falling from the sky, scientists now say they know the culprit: Huge amounts of decades-old “legacy” mercury pollution stored in the sediment is still getting into the fish.
In a study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, published online March 13, scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Duluth laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey and several other institutions used isotope “fingerprinting’’ to trace mercury in the fish all the way back to its source, differentiating old legacy mercury from new mercury falling from the sky.
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