A healthy recovery staged by wild lake trout in Lake Superior means these fish no longer need to be stocked in the lake, according to an updated management plan that covers the Minnesota waters of Lake Superior. Lake trout in … Continued
State fisheries biologists hope to improve coho salmon fishing in Indiana by stocking larger cohos into the St. Joseph River this spring. Indiana DNR has stocked coho salmon fingerlings into Lake Michigan and its tributaries since the 1970s, previously done … Continued
This spring, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries personnel will be taking walleye eggs below the Croton Dam on the Muskegon River. DNR plans to collect approximately 67 million walleye eggs from the Muskegon River in 2016, resulting … Continued
Fishery managers from Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario, and Pennsylvania have released an updated walleye management plan for Lake Erie. The plan, which is an update of the original plan of 2005, sets new fishery goals and objectives for walleye … Continued
A hepatitis B-like virus has been found for the first time in fish. A team of USGS researchers found the virus in white sucker from the Great Lakes Region using gene-sequencing technologies. How the recently discovered hepatitis B-like virus is … Continued