| After 25 years, Lake Michigan refuge fails to nurture wild lake trout | |
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Great Lakes Echo
Aug 31 2010
Any lake trout pulled from the wild blue waters of Lake Michigan now was probably born in a government building. That’s despite a 45-year-old, multi-million-dollar program aimed at restoring a self-sustaining, naturally reproducing population of what was formerly the Great Lakes’ top predator. Lake trout were wiped out in most of the Great Lakes by the mid-1900s as a result of overfishing, invasive species and habitat destruction. Managers started stocking them in Lake Michigan in 1965. |
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