The Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s binational Lake Erie Committee (LEC), composed of fishery managers from Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario and Pennsylvania recently set total allowable catches (TACs) for 2024 of 12.858 million walleye and 6.554 million pounds of yellow … Continued
Indiana anglers are invited to participate in the 2024 Midwest Walleye Challenge. The virtual fishing tournament format allows anglers to compete for prizes while providing Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries biologists with valuable data on the state’s walleye, … Continued
Results from Lake Erie trawl surveys revealed that walleye hatches were exceptional and yellow perch hatches were below average in 2023, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Walleye fishing in Lake Erie is expected … Continued
A review of Ontario’s Lake Nipissing walleye management concluded that current practices are the best option to stabilize and recover the walleye fishery, according to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. In April 2016, the province commissioned an internationally-recognized … Continued
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently released final totals from its spring and summer fish-stocking efforts. In 2016, DNR’s Fisheries Division stocked a total of 33,308,068 fish. The total increased from 2015 when stocking efforts totaled nearly 25 … Continued