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Beaver Island spring sucker, trout, and fishery report, 1970

Also Beaver Island May 1970 game news

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TypeEvent
Date1970-05
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1970-05
Kind
Observation
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
wildlifefishingrecreation
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The May 1970 Beaver Beacon reported a continuing sucker run, small trout in Fox Lake, no smelt run in Island streams, and a fair supply of whitefish and lake trout in surrounding waters.

Evidence and limits

This is a contemporaneous newspaper observation rather than a catch census or biological assessment.

Sources

  1. Reports a heavy sucker run, catches of trout in Fox Lake, no spring smelt run and dead smelt and alewives on the beach, and commercial fishermen finding whitefish and lake trout offshore.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1970-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published game report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1970-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island spring sucker, trout, and fishery report, 1970”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-spring-game-news-may-1970/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1970, “Game News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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