lake trout

After the population of Lake Superior's top predator fish fell by 95%, the lake trout restoration effort has returned it to sustainable levels, researchers say.

Today, the Trump campaign’s Michigan blitz. Also, the pros and cons of introducing genetically engineered strains of fish into the Great Lakes to help a threatened trout species. Plus, what a Netlfix documentary featuring Connor Stalions reveals about Michigan’s sign stealing scandal, and college football’s cloak and dagger elements.

The lake trout used to be the fish to catch in the Great Lakes. But by the 1950s, severe overfishing and an infestation of an eel-like, blood-sucking…

An industrial chemical is showing up in trout from the Great Lakes. It’s called perfluoro-1-butane sulfonamide, or FBSA.Researchers traced this chemical…

You’ve probably heard about the big bad invasive silver or bighead carp, also known as Asian carp.But there’s another invasive fish that’s roughly a third…

A fish that was almost wiped out in the Great Lakes is making a comeback in Lake Huron.Lake trout are suddenly doing what biologists have been trying to…

For years now, we’ve heard bad news about the Great Lakes. Most of it has to do with invasive species getting into the lakes and wrecking the food web.One…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-983046.mp3To understand why salmon are so important to the Great Lakes and the…

For twenty years now the federal government has been trying to restore wild lake trout in Lake Michigan. Lake trout are native to the Great Lakes and were…

New research finds that fish in the Great Lakes are contaminated with a chemical used in aircraft hydraulic fluids.Researcher Amila DeSilva works for…