The code written on the tag revealed that the trout was 39 years old, marking it the Great Lakes Mass Marking Program’s ...

For many anglers and environmentalists, the return of robust lake trout populations to the Great Lakes has been a hard-won battle. Decades of overfishing, habitat degradation, and the devastating ...

Lake trout, for many years the richest catch of Canadian and U.S. fisheries in the Great Lakes, ... drills a hole through the scales with its tongue and multiple rows of sharp teeth, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reports that in May 2023 an angler fishing off Sheboygan caught a large 16-pound lake trout having a coded wire tag. The tag showed the fish had been ...

The Lake Superior Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission on Nov. 20 declared lake trout met the recovery milestone in most of Lake Superior. More: Outdoors calendar ...