Since the late 1990s, the lake whitefish population has declined as much as 80 percent in parts of the Great Lakes. The culprit is a tiny invasive species called the quagga mussel.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration houses key groups like the National Weather Service. Experts warn the consequences of employee cuts could be drastic.

Fish and wildlife officials tasked with holding back a species that would otherwise decimate the Great Lakes fishery were among those caught up in a mass purge of federal workers. Dozens, if not hundr...

Two of the biggest threats to the Great Lakes region’s $7 billion fishery — invasive carp and sea lampreys — will get worse if the Trump Administration’s ...

Fishing in the Viking era did not affect the Icelandic cod population, but foreign markets in the 14th century changed everything.

Fish populations in the Laurentian Great Lakes have undergone major changes over recent decades. Demographic changes in fish populations are often acc…

The study fills in more gaps about what goes on out in the lakes during the winter months. Until now, most Great Lakes research has been done on land.

Numbers for walleye are down but up for perch with steelhead fishing soon in Cleveland — according to Ohio Division of Wildlife 2024 trawl survey.

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Le Comité sur les Noms des Poissons, un comité conjoint de la Société Americaine de Pêcheries et de la Société Americaine des Ichtyologistes et Herpetologistes, a publié la dernière édition de la list...

Fourwaves - International Conference on Fish Telemetry (7th ICFT)

There is not one singular way to weave together Indigenous and Western knowledges; creating meaningful cross-cultural collaborations requires a foundation of relationships rooted in the context of spe...

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A gap exists in the literature on how to implement theories of knowledge exchange (KE) into practice within an environmental management context. To support the improved practice of KE, we conducted a...

After the population of Lake Superior's top predator fish fell by 95%, the lake trout restoration effort has returned it to sustainable levels, researchers say.

Population abundance is a critical metric in fisheries and conservation, but it is very difficult to measure accurately. Existing estimation methods present significant challenges: mark–recapture meth...