Data show fewer, larger salmon

(MI) Traverse City Record-Eagle – Michigan fisheries officials are seeing signs that a move to reduce the number of Chinook salmon released into Lake Michigan is improving the balance between the popular game fish and its prey.

Preliminary data suggest there are fewer — but larger — Chinook in the lake than in previous years. That trend would provide further evidence that stocking cuts in 2006 are having the desired effect. More

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