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
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently issued a reminder to organizers that bass fishing tournaments in the state must be registered, beginning in 2016. In October 2015 the DNR’s Natural Resources Commission issued Fisheries Order 215.15A requiring all … 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
NOAA has selected three projects, through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), totaling nearly $1 million, to restore habitat in severely degraded areas of the Great Lakes. Funded projects in Michigan and Ohio will restore spawning and nursery grounds for … Continued
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently announced the totals from its annual walleye rearing pond harvest and stocking of walleye fingerlings. The DNR’s Fisheries Division and tribal partners stocked nearly 4.7 million walleye fingerlings in more than 110 water … Continued