We've been spending the past couple months going on fishing trips, and talking to people who fish for fun and for a living... to bring you stories about everything you never knew you wanted to know about fish and fishing in the Great Lakes.
Today, you can hear the result of our effort in a special one-hour documentary we're calling Swimming Upstream.
We'll tag along on a salmon fishing trip with Lester Graham, go on an Asian carp rodeo on the Illinois River, meet commercial fishers (both tribal and non-tribal), and go fishing with Dustin Dwyer as he gets into the mind of a fish.
We think of the Lakes today as a great place to play on the beach, to swim, to go fishing. But those huge, beautiful lakes are changing.
The changes are happening so fast that the agencies which manage fishing cannot keep up with them.
On average, a new foreign species gets into the Lakes every seven months. Each could be a threat to the lakes and the fish in the lakes. We explore the health and future of the Great Lakes, and hear stories about fish and the people who catch them.
Listen to it here:
http://environmentreport.org/audio/fish_streamdoc.mp3
Or tune in today at 1pm and 8pm on Michigan Radio to hear Swimming Upstream and let us know what you think.
Find out more about fish consumption advisories: in Michigan, in Ohio, in Wisconsin, in New York, and in Illinois.
