By Louie Stout

Ethan Binkowski

Meet Ethan Binkowski, the new DNR District 3 assistant fisheries biologist for much of northeastern Indiana.

Binkowski, 27, will assist District Biologist Tyler DeLauder with various fish surveys and other fisheries projects.

This is good news because the DNR finally approved assistant biologists for each district. Northern Indiana district biologists have been operating without assistants since 2019.

“Having another fulltime person means we can do more surveys, get more work done and be more efficient,” said DeLauder. “It will be nice having another fulltime biologist and do the work we were dong before we lost those positions.” Binkowski, who grew up in the Lansing, Mich. area, graduated from Lake Superior Stat e University before working with the Michigan and Ohio DNRs and landing the job in Indiana.

He’s worked various projects in the Great Lakes and while in Ohio, he did research work on perch, walleye and white bass. He has worked as an Indiana assistant research biologist since hiring on with the Indiana in 2023.

The District Three covers northeastern fisheries from south of Angola to Randolph County and includes all of the Kosciusko County lakes east and the Missisinewa, Salamonie and Huntington Reservoirs.

We’ll provide details of more northern Indiana assistant fisheries biologist appointments as they are announced.