Diocese of the Great Lakes and Kitchener, Ontario, and in Battle Creek, Michigan. In 1998, the DGL was admitted to membership in the Anglican Church, Inc, a federation of Continuing Anglican churches, but withdrew in 2001. Most of the ACI's constituent dioceses reorganized thereafter as the Anglican Church International Communion. In 2014, the Diocese of the Great Lakes was admitted to the United Episcopal Church of North America as its diocese for the Upper Midwest and Eastern Canada. The Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Great Lakes is David Thomas Hustwick, Rector of Saints Andrew and Matthias Anglican Church in Hastings, Michigan. The Bishop
Great Lakes during the 1970s and 1980s, combined with successful salmonid stocking programs, have enabled the growth of a large recreational fishery. The last commercial fisherman left Milwaukee in 2011 because of overfishing and anthropogenic changes to the biosphere. Since the 19th century an estimated 160 new species have found their way into the Great Lakes ecosystem; many have become invasive; the overseas ship ballast and ship hull parasitism are causing severe economic and ecological impacts. According to the Inland Seas Education Association, on average a new species enters the Great Lakes every eight months. Introductions into the Great Lakes include the