A documentary explores how quadrillions of tiny mussels are reshaping the Great Lakes. Could this spell doom for a beloved fish? But while mussels are eating the food that fish need, something is eating the mussels. We catch up with Zaria Johnson from Ideastream Public media to find out why Ohioans are pushing back against data centers.
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1:13 Meet the Whitefish
3:56 How Do Baby Fish Eat?
4:30 Why Are Baby Fish Are Starving?
5:05 What Do Zooplankton Eat?
5:28 Why Are Quagga Mussels ‘Bad’?
6:39 Difference of Zebra and Quagga Mussels
7:50 Invasive Mussels Are Destroying This Ship
8:39 How Mussels Attach Themselves
9:39 The Only Lake Without Mussels
11:45 Endangered Fish Impact Indigenous History
13:30 Where Do Invasive Mussels Come From?
15:15 Efforts to Fix the Invasion
16:00 Good News
21:17 Data Centers
23:10 Why Is Data Center Water Use Important?
