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L'ANSE, Mich. — Long dedicated to the trout that sustain its commercial fishing, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community started rearing fish that historically couldn't survive in much of frigid Lake ...
Commercial fishing operations near the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior are reporting record numbers of whitefish and a strong recovery of lake trout since a decline in the early 2000s.
Both a keystone species and top predator, lake trout are essential to the Lake Superior ecosystem and play an important role in commercial and recreational fishing, a multibillion-dollar Great ...
After being decimated by commercial fishing and sea lampreys in the 1950s and 1960s, the lake trout population has been successfully rehabilitated in most of Minnesota's waters.
Between commercial fishing and sea lamprey feeding on trout, the Lake Superior population collapsed in the 1950s. It took 70 years and effort across several levels of government to help the fish ...
Two of Minnesota’s last commercial fishermen, Brisson and Smith are in their mid-30s, and have been catching or processing fish on Lake Superior for most of their lives. But the fishing had gone ...
Lake Superior was showing its gentle side as three of us headed east from the marina in Grand Portage, Minn., on a recent Saturday morning for the 18-mile boat ride to Isle Royale National Park.
DNR celebrating success of long-range program to restore trout to Lake Superior DNR is validating fruits of success of its decades-long plan to revive species.