Each semester, NMU students studying natural resource–related fields have the interesting opportunity to dive into real-world ...

When the tribe first returned to Lake Superior two years ago to exercise their rights to harvest the fish under treaties ...

Once-rare lake trout in Lake Superior are doing so well that state biologists will use the fish to stock the species in lakes around the state, officials have announced. This fall, the Department of ...

After nearly being wiped out in the mid-20th century, one of the Great Lakes' top native fish species has "fully recovered" in the world's greatest freshwater lake, according to natural resource ...

MADISON — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources again stocked a bunch of fish in Lake Michigan and Lake Superior this year. “The fisheries of the Great Lakes provide world-class fishing ...

Splake: Splake, which are a hybrid cross between lake trout and brook trout, have been stocked in Lake Superior most years since 1971, with annual stocking since 1990. (Department of Natural Resources ...

More than 60 years after invasive sea lamprey began decimating Lake Superior lake trout, restoration efforts have successfully returned this native freshwater fish to the lake. Both a keystone species ...

Chris Carlson was fishing on Grand Marais Harbor Sunday when he saw a large wave hit a group of people walking on a pier. One ...

Michigan DNR officials say the oldest lake trout ever recorded was found in 2023. Researchers were studying a subspecies of lake trout at a remote island in Lake Superior when they recorded the ...