Fisheries

Stateside: Immigrants react to insurrection; UAW and civil rights; COVID pauses college sports

Stateside Staff

Today on Stateside, after the Capitol insurrection on January 6, some immigrants are feeling unsettled by the kind of political instability they once…

Environment & Climate Change

A once-bountiful fish was wiped out of Michigan. Now, researchers think they can bring it back.

Lexi Krupp

For decades, researchers have been trying to bring back this iconic fish to Michigan—the arctic grayling—without success. Now, more than 50 collaborators…

The Great Lakes fishery lost an estimated $50 million from the pandemic.

Economy

Congress gave $300 million to help fisheries. The Great Lakes got zero.

Lexi Krupp

The nationwide shutdown was especially ill-timed for fishers in the Great Lakes.Many deal in lake whitefish, a species that dwells in cold waters. The…

People stand in the water, holding both ends of a large net.

Environment & Climate Change

Non-profit trains citizen scientists to collect fish data from the Great Lakes

Kaye LaFond

A new nonprofit is training citizen scientists to collect data on fish in the Great Lakes. They think it could be a game-changer for research in the…

Environment & Climate Change

Largemouth bass virus found in more northern Michigan lakes

Kaye LaFond

Largemouth bass virus has been found in two more northern Michigan lakes. Samples from Beaver Lake in Alpena County and Avalon Lake in Montmorency County…