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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources suspended all egg-take operations for prized game fish like steelhead, walleye and muskellunge, which means hatcheries will go without a year class of the species. Above, angler Chris Schnell of Portage shows off a steelhead.
Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:51

Michigan coronavirus prevention measures could mean fewer fish in years ahead

A series of measures intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus could have implications for Michigan’s recreational fishery in the coming years. 

Published in Economic Development
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The Michigan Arctic Grayling Initiative is studying ways to reintroduce the species in select rivers in the northern Lower Peninsula. Grayling were extirpated from Michigan in the mid 1930s.
Sunday, 04 March 2018 18:38

Partners back effort to reintroduce long-extinct arctic grayling to Michigan rivers

A broad statewide partnership is examining what it would take to reintroduce a native fish that disappeared from Michigan waters more than 80 years ago.

Published in Economic Development
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A fisheries biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service holds a juvenile lake trout that was processed in the agency’s mass-marking program. Under the program, biologists insert small coded-wire tags into the snouts of chinook salmon and lake trout so they can track how many hatchery and wild fish are in the ecosystem.
Sunday, 02 April 2017 15:45

Great Lakes budget cuts threaten sport fishery management

Fisheries managers witnessed firsthand the devastation caused to coastal communities around Lake Huron when the population of chinook salmon abruptly crashed in 2004.

Published in Economic Development
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