May 3, 2021
LANSING The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has awarded a total of $100,000 in deer habitat improvement grant funding to 12 entities for projects in the Upper Peninsula.
The Deer Habitat Improvement Partnership Initiative is a competitive grant program designed to enhance deer habitat on non-state lands in the Upper Peninsula.
“These grants will produce positive impacts on 844 acres in Menominee, Marquette, Alger, Gogebic, Iron, Baraga, Ontonagon, Gogebic, Schoolcraft, and Mackinac counties,” said Bill Scullon, DNR field operations manager and administrator for the grant initiative. “The planned match for the 12 grants is valued in excess of $123,930 (well in excess of the required 25 percent) further expanding the impact of the projects.”
DNR needs anglers to report marked splake caught in Lake Superior
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LANSING, MI – The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is on the hunt for marked splake.
The fish, a hybrid cross between lake trout and brook trout, have been stocked in Lake Superior most years since 1971, with annual stocking since 1990. The agency needs anglers to report sightings as part of a study of the Lake Superior splake fishery which began last week.
In Lake Superior, the DNR stocks splake in Munising, Copper Harbor and occasionally in Keweenaw Bay to create fishing opportunities in the Great Lake’s smaller bays where some fisheries are available year-round.
May 1, 2021
Courtesy Photo In this photo provided by the Michigan DNR, a DNR employee is seen in Black River with sturgeon.
Volunteers are needed in Cheboygan County now through early June to stand guard as mature lake sturgeon head upstream to their spawning sites along the Black River.
The Black Lake Chapter of Sturgeon for Tomorrow is working in partnership with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and tribes to protect the fish from being illegally harvested during the six-week spawning season.
Sgt. Mark DePew, who leads DNR Law Enforcement Division’s efforts on the river, said, “This program, that protects this iconic species when they are most vulnerable, is a model of how agencies and the public can cooperate to get needed work accomplished.”
Associated Press
This 240-pound sturgeon that could be more than 100 years old was caught April 22 in the Detroit River by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; a USFWS staffer is laying alongside for comparison. The nearly 7-foot-long fish, assumed to be a female, was quickly released back into the river after being weighed and measured.
DETROIT (AP) Now that’s a whopper a very old whopper!
A 240-pound sturgeon that could be more than 100 years old was caught last week in the Detroit River by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The “real life river monster” was nearly 7 feet long, the agency said Friday on Facebook.