One study shows a majority of Lake Erie anglers have changed how they fish in response to algal blooms—including changing fishing locations, deciding not to fish and spending less or more time fishing. It looks like the lake is sick,” said Devin Gill, stakeholder engagement specialist for the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research and principal author of the study. “We actually discovered that a number of the anglers who spent a lot of time on Lake Erie, especially the charter captains, were looking for these different factors and kind of making predictions for themselves about where the blooms were going to move,” Gill said.