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 ...

LAKE SUPERIOR (WJRT) - The Lake Superior Committee (LSC) of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission announced that the lake trout population has "fully restored" in Lake Superior. According to the ...

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 ...

Researchers say that a lake trout recently captured in Lake Superior is believed to be the oldest-known specimen of its species ever caught in the Great Lakes, estimated to be 62 years old. The fish ...

The Minnesota Department of Fish and Widllife officially confirmed the state’s newest laker record on Monday. The 43.25-inch lake trout caught by Isaiah Bartlett in March surpassed the state’s ...

MARQUETTE, MI -- The oldest fish in the Great Lakes lived through 12 presidential elections, the first human to go to space and the rise of the internet. Meet Mary Catherine of Klondike Reef in Lake ...

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Fishery managers are declaring success in an almost 70-year effort to rehabilitate populations of a native apex predator that was almost extirpated from the largest Great Lake. Lake trout, a keystone ...