salmon

Sport fishing groups want state to stop stocking salmon in Lake Michigan

How many salmon can Lake Michigan support?That’s the critical question state fishery biologists have to answer this year.Everyone involved in the salmon…

The Desperado heads out at sunrise to go after Pacific salmon in Lake Michigan.

Environment & Climate Change

A salmon balancing act for Lake Michigan fishery managers

Michigan Radio Newsroom

by Peter Payette for The Environment ReportThe people who manage salmon in Lake Michigan will have to decide soon how many fish to put into the lake. The…

Environment & Climate Change

Platte Lake cleaner after years of salmon hatchery pollution

Rebecca Williams

Decades ago, residents sued to stop a fish hatchery in northern Michigan from polluting a lake. More than thirty years later, the legal battles have ended…

C. J. Baker operates a salmon fishing charter boat for Puddle Jumpers Charters. He moved his boat from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan after the salmon fishing collapsed in Lake Huron.

Collapse of salmon in Lake Huron (Part 3)

Lester Graham

Part 3 of 3 part series - http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-983223.mp3Salmon fishing has meant a lot of tourism…

U.S. Fish and Wildlife fish hatchery in Brimley, MI on Lake Superior. The trailers are 'mass marking trailers,' used to tag every hatchery fish introduced into the Great Lakes.

Big returns for subsidized fish (Part 2)

Lester Graham

Part 2 of a 3 part series -http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-983224.mp3Fishing in the Great Lakes would not be…

Headed out to go salmon fishing on Lake Michigan near Grand Haven.

Collapse of the salmon economy (Part 1)

Lester Graham

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

Lake trout were once the big game fish in all of the Great Lakes. Some people still love catching and eating them.

Environment & Climate Change

Lake trout on life support in Lake Michigan

Rebecca Williams

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…

The Chinook salmon was initially introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1870s. Michigan, New York and Wisconsin reintroduced the Chinook salmon to the Great Lakes in 1966.

Environment & Climate Change

Salmon fishery on the rocks

Rebecca Williams

There’s a decision looming for Lake Huron that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. The state must decide whether it should keep putting chinook…