Lake-trout experimental plantings near the Fox Islands, 1944

Summary

The Herald described a Great Lakes Lake Trout Committee and state Conservation Department study that planted approximately 100,000 marked fingerling lake trout near the Fox Islands.

Evidence and limits

Everything here comes from a page of the Charlevoix County Herald, 13 October 1944. Nothing in it has been checked against an agency or a vessel record.

was going 35 in a 25-mile zone,” Bacon ee IN. MEMORIAM In loving memory of Burdett Ev- ans, who passed away four years ago, October 17 ,1940. It -is sweet to remember a loved one so dear, Although absent from us he is ever so near. Unseen by the world he stands by our side And whispers my loved ones death cannot divide. Loving wife, children and A1xl grandchildren. Plant Around 100,000 | Marked Fingerling Lake Trout Near Fox Islands Planting of approximately 100,000 marked fingerling lake trout in Lake /Michigan in the vicinity of the Fox Islands marks another step in the} study of commercial fishing being conducted by the Great Lakes Lake Trout committee, the state Conserva- tion Deparment’s Fish Division has announced. The experiment is being carried on to determine what per- centage of lake trout caught by com- mercial fishermen originates in hatch- er

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