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Alewives were once an important food source for top predators and popular gamefish such as salmon and lake trout. But Great Lakes populations of the small fish started to decline in the early 1980s.
The research could have implications for estimating how many lake trout are in the Great Lakes.
Women who fish have created a new Twitter hashtag to promote awareness of their growing numbers.
Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium has released the Great Lakes Fish Finder App to record fish sightings in the Great Lakes area.
Cleaner water, fishing limits, stocking programs are credited with beginnings of a recovery.
The Marquette State Fish Hatchery lost around 100,000 fish in 2012 to the disease, according to a new publication in the American Fisheries Society. Similar losses happened again in 2017.
A disease that kills one of Michigan’s most popular gamefish appears to be spreading northward, worrying anglers and fisheries managers.
It has harmed native fish populations elsewhere.
Once the DNR’s egg take needs are met, the agency sells surplus salmon to the public.
The Toledo Zoo is inviting citizens to participate in the reintroduction of the lake sturgeon into the Maumee River.