This fall and winter, Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources, Fisheries Division will be harvesting fish eggs for hatchery fish production. Fall egg takes are starting or are under way for wild Chinook and coho salmon and for captive broodstocks of … Continued
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced that approximately 18,500 young lake sturgeon from a streamside sturgeon-rearing facility were stocked in several inland lakes in northern Michigan on Monday, July 1. Selected and prioritized locations that were stocked with the … Continued
This spring, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources will be on the water collecting eggs from Great Lakes muskellunge in the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair. The eggs are being collected for the Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in … Continued
Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently announced plans to release approximately 100,000 Atlantic salmon into Lake Huron and two of its tributary streams during the 2013 spring season. Stocking locations will include the St. Marys River, Au Sable River, Thunder … Continued
To compensate for historical losses of habitat, NOAA and its partners recently constructed a reef across the middle channel of Michigan’s St. Clair River. Even before the construction ended in June, NOAA researchers reported seeing lake sturgeon swimming around the … Continued