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The Michigan DNR has proposed to establish a new trout stream category. Currently, there are four categories of trout streams; this proposed additional category is referred to as a Type 5 trout stream. This effort is in response to requests from anglers to increase the daily possession limit on brook trout across the Upper Peninsula.
On Type 5 stream segments, the daily possession limit for brook trout would be 10 fish and the minimum size limit would be 7 inches. All or portions of 10 Upper Peninsula rivers and tributary streams are being proposed for the Type 5 category and have been selected from existing Type 1 streams (which have a daily possession limit of five fish and 7-inch minimum size limit).
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Michigan Fisheries staffers at the Platte River State Fish Hatchery arrived for work a week ago to find 5,700 coho salmon dead in one of the maturation ponds at the Upper Weir.
All signs indicate the loss was from a late Thursday night vandalism act, as it appears the fish were forcibly crowded into a small area which blocked water flow through the screens and created conditions in which the dissolved oxygen concentrations became lethal.
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Attention fall salmon anglers: If its missing an adipose fin, please turn it in.
Adipose Fin Example
The missing fin identifies king salmon that are part of a multi-state research project to study the movement of the species in Lake Michigan.
The adipose fin is a small fin on top and near the fishs tail.
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Mike Frank of Dialed-In Charters will discuss king salmon fishing at the Michiana Steelheaders meeting Wednesday, Sept. 5. The meeting is open to the public.
Frank will share tactics for catching kings from Lake Michigan and the St. Joseph River. The program begins at 7:30 at the De Amicis Club in Mishawaka, 302 W. 11th St.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Following more than a year of consultation with angler groups and other stakeholders, the Lake Michigan Committee (LMC) has proposed a new management strategy for Lake Michigan salmon.
Beginning in spring of 2013, the LMC recommends that Chinook salmon stocking in Lake Michigan be reduced to one-half of current stocking levels.
Under the proposed agreement, the 3.3 million Chinook salmon annually stocked into Lake Michigan would be reduced by 1.6 million fish, for a total of 1.7 million fish to be stocked. Michigan would shoulder the largest reduction, stocking 1.1 million fewer fish, since Michigan streams currently contribute the majority of the natural reproduction. Wisconsin would reduce its stocking by 440,000 fish, while Illinois and Indiana would reduce by 20,000 and 25,000 fish, respectively. The CORA tribes do not stock Chinook salmon.