Hey Hawk

Didn't mean to diss the Great Lakes, just did a little work for Wisconsin DNR a couple of years back. Bottom line its a question of water volume and area, not pollution. The Great Lakes are big, but there's no where for the water to go. Over here the water gets flushed by the Pacific Ocean (just a little bigger) such that tinkling over your boat eventually winds up in the Phillipines or whereever. And the salmon also do this thing around much of the Pacific rim as well. I can't imagine any less pollution in some of our wonderful urban bays.