Wildlife
Court upholds Minnesota tribal fishing rights
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Defendants describe use of secretly recorded conversations, mobile tracking devices, interrogations, undercover surveillance as techniques more familiar to drug traffickers than to fishermen.
Wildlife
Fish heads and math could solve migratory mystery
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Chemical concentrations in bone and mathematical models can help resource managers decide how to stock salmon.
Recreation
License fee change generated more funds for Michigan natural resources
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The restructuring is expected to put more boots on the ground, waders in the water and eyes in the field.
Wildlife
Immediate salmon outlook steady despite fewer eggs collected
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But record low collection could indicate longterm troubling trend.
Wildlife
Walleyes, rivers and pollution settlement
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Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM. This week, Kart discusses Consumers Energy’s cut to pollution, Huron Pines reconnecting rivers and Saginaw Bay Charters hooking more walleye. Text at Mr. Great Lakes.
Recreation
Balancing fish that are good dads and great sport
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Those best at protecting the next generation of a significant source of tourism revenue are also the most fun to catch.
Recreation
Researchers study how to keep lures on the line
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Lost lures can expand inside the stomach of fish. They don’t decompose underwater.
Recreation
Michigan lawmakers propose wildlife council to promote hunting, fishing
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Michigan lawmakers are looking to create a new wildlife council to educate the public about the outdoors and the role of hunters, anglers and trappers – using money from hunting and license fees.
Echo
Upending the basin: Can freshwater snorkeling promote preservation?
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Freshwater snorkeling is opening a window on Tennessee’s river biodiversity.
Could a similar effort in the Great Lakes region build a consitutency for conserving aquatic species here?
Echo
Detroit’s Water Renaissance: Detroit’s walleye fishing industry nets millions
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Detroit is known for a lot of things, but one of the most surprising is walleye fishing. Contributor Judi Smelser takes us fishing on the river with Lance Valentine.