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Fish of the Week: Bringin’ Bloater Back!

Fish of the Week: Bringin’ Bloater Back!

Brian Weidel with the USGS Great Lakes Science Center and Dimitry Gorsky from the FWS Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office are guests on the Fish of the Week! podcast.

SUNY Cortland joins effort to restore native Lake Ontario fish

SUNY Cortland and SUNY Oswego faculty and students are collaborating with the federal Tunison Lake Ontario Biological Station in Cortland and many other agencies and organizations to save a critical piece of the Great Lakes ecosystem. This research project is made...

Cisco explosion in Lake Superior may be largest on record

Cisco explosion in Lake Superior may be largest on record

DULUTH — A small, native fish in Lake Superior is having a population explosion, great news for the big lake’s ecosystem but maybe a mixed blessing for anglers. The lake’s population of cisco, sometimes called lake herring, have rebounded with a massive group of young...

Anishinaabe tribes work to save Michigan whitefish

Anishinaabe tribes work to save Michigan whitefish

Commercial fishers are catching fewer whitefish in parts of the Great Lakes – and the Anishinaabe people are trying to figure out why. The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians is looking into low reproduction rates for the fish. Great Lakes whitefish are pretty...

Water test: One fish, two fish – where are all the whitefish?

Water test: One fish, two fish – where are all the whitefish?

LANSING — Three men pull a fat-tired wagon filled with scientific equipment through the sand of Muskegon’s Pere Marquette beach. Dressed in layers against the late spring cold, their camo-print chest waders lend a rocking character to their gait not typical of...

Great Lakes fish and fisheries suffer stress of warming climate

The story of the Bay Port Fish Company is only one in the millions of lives, built on the shores of the Great Lakes — the largest freshwater lake system in the world. After the Williams family purchased the Bay Port Fish Company in 1978, they would take their boats...