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DNR recommends reduced lake whitefish harvest quota for Lake Michigan

Wed, 12/03/2025 - 12:49 Great Lakes Commission

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is recommending a 39% reduction in the lake whitefish quota for commercial fishers in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan but no change in […]

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Saving Great Lakes whitefish is a race against time

Mon, 11/24/2025 - 12:44 Great Lakes Commission

Bridge Michigan has spent the past several months chronicling the demise of the lower Great Lakes whitefish, investigating causes, consequences and potential solutions. Now, they’re teaming up with Detroit PBS […]

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Bill would inject $500M into Great Lakes invasive mussel fight

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 12:15 Great Lakes Commission

Two Michigan Congressional delegates have introduced bipartisan legislation that would devote $500 million over the next decade to battling invasive quagga and zebra mussels, which have destabilized the Great Lakes […]

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Remembering the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald on the 50th anniversary of its sinking

Mon, 11/10/2025 - 13:30 Great Lakes Commission

50 years ago on Monday, one of the most “mysterious and controversial” of all shipwrecks on the Great Lakes took place 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan, taking the […]

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DNR proposes limiting commercial whitefish harvest after steep population decline

Fri, 10/31/2025 - 12:35 Great Lakes Commission

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is proposing to reduce the number of whitefish that commercial fishers can take from Lake Michigan as the population has seen a dramatic decline […]

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New Saginaw Bay reef aims to boost whitefish, walleye spawning

Fri, 10/24/2025 - 13:47 Great Lakes Commission

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission has completed the construction of a 2.5-acre reef built from 20,000 tons of limestone in Lake Huron. Its purpose is to increase spawning habitat for […]

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Xenopoulos: Warmer weather leading to vanishing winters in Great Lakes

Sat, 10/18/2025 - 00:45 London Free Press

Winter conditions in the Great Lakes are getting much shorter — by about two weeks fewer each decade since 1995

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Whitefish crash has Michigan fishers on the brink: ‘It makes you want to cry’

Mon, 10/13/2025 - 12:31 Great Lakes Commission

Once numbering in the thousands, now only dozens of commercial fishers remain in lakes Michigan and Huron as whitefish stock collapse; and unlike other fish crises, this one can’t be […]

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Huron Bruce Nature learns about Lake Huron fish communities

Fri, 09/26/2025 - 11:09 The Lucknow Sentinel

The first meeting of the 2025-2026 season of the Huron Bruce Nature (HBN) club went swimmingly with an excellent presentation on the changing ecology of Lake Huron fish communities by Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Management biologist Arunas Liskaukas. Nearing retirement after a 35-year “dream” career researching and working with fish, this passionate scientist […]

Time running out for Great Lakes whitefish. Can ponds become their Noah’s Ark?

Wed, 09/17/2025 - 13:27 Great Lakes Commission

As whitefish disappear from the lower Great Lakes, scientists are hatching emergency rescue plans. One idea being floated is to take fish out of the lakes and raise them indefinitely […]

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Hopes and fishes

Fri, 09/12/2025 - 12:38 Great Lakes Commission

Across Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, lake whitefish populations have been on the verge of collapse. But in Green Bay, Wisconsin, lake whitefish have been unexpectedly thriving. Read the full […]

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Hopes and Fishes

Fri, 09/12/2025 - 05:45 Interlochen Public Radio

In one of the most polluted parts of Lake Michigan, whitefish are thriving. Some people wonder if we should try to replicate that environment elsewhere to save the iconic species. But that could mean doing something untested and controversial.

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