Once-rare lake trout in Lake Superior are doing so well that state biologists will use the fish to stock the species in lakes around the state, officials have announced. This fall, the Department of ...

Last year, fisheries officials with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources proposed ending decades of lake trout stocking in Minnesota waters of Lake Superior after 2016. Now, a fish disease in ...

3/20: Jeff Makela, of Superior, caught this 28-inch native brown trout from a small spring pond in Bayfield County. It was caught July 19, 2025, after a morning rain storm. "I hope to share the story ...

After nearly being wiped out in the mid-20th century, one of the Great Lakes' top native fish species has "fully recovered" in the world's greatest freshwater lake, according to natural resource ...

LAKE SUPERIOR (WJRT) - The Lake Superior Committee (LSC) of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission announced that the lake trout population has "fully restored" in Lake Superior. According to the ...

Michigan DNR officials say the oldest lake trout ever recorded was found in 2023. Researchers were studying a subspecies of lake trout at a remote island in Lake Superior when they recorded the ...

Nashon Randall, second from right, a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, tosses a lake trout into a bucket as fellow Band members Antwan LaFave, right, Kail Beaulieu, left, and ...

Researchers say that a lake trout recently captured in Lake Superior is believed to be the oldest-known specimen of its species ever caught in the Great Lakes, estimated to be 62 years old. The fish ...