- Date
- 2008-09
- Kind
- Conservation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- conservationenvironmentfishingcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island · place/lake-michigan
Summary
The September 2008 Beacon reported a Wisconsin DNR plan to restore lake trout in two deep-water Lake Michigan areas, including waters near Beaver Island. The proposed planting involved approximately 3.1 million eggs from three species and 500,000 fingerlings.
Evidence limits
The article describes a proposal and hoped-for restoration, not a completed stocking operation or later fishery assessment.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "Lake Trout May Return."Reports that Wisconsin’s DNR was planning to stock deep Lake Michigan waters off Sheboygan and near Beaver Island with about 3.1 million eggs from three lake-trout species and 500,000 fingerlings. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the restoration proposal.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Wisconsin DNR proposes lake-trout restoration near Beaver Island, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-lake-trout-stocking-proposal-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "Lake Trout May Return." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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