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 Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Been having some discussion on my Saginaw Bay fishing board about Lake herring. Their many scientific names, historic abundance and decline over the years in each lake, and their future as a forage and/or game fish, if any. Someone mentioned that they heard our DNR actually planted some this year in lake Huron. I ran with that ball and E-mailed my DNR biologist buddy. Heres his answer and a nice photo. Some truth in those 2008 Herring plants Dan: 6,250 lake herring fingerlings (nice ones too, see attached photo) were planted in Thunder Bay here in Alpena. These fingerlings were the product of an experimental lake herring culture pilot project. For the last two years the DNR has been engaged in a pilot project to refine the culture and logistical details of lake herring rearing with the idea that we may someday (in the near future) embark on a larger scale lake herring stocking program. The fingerlings that were stocked this year were the result of that pilot project effort. Understand that the goal this year was not to have a big plant, but to just learn better how to collect the eggs and do the rearing. Anything that got stocked was just frosting on the cake so to speak, for this year. The pilot project is a success in that we are learning lots about how to go about this. Yes we had some poor egg fertilization rates, but that is how we learn to do this. We hope to have those bugs worked out this coming fall. Presently we plan another year of the pilot project (2008/09). The final decision to embark on a large scale reintroduction effort has not yet been made by the DNR. That will be taken up later depending on the results of the pilot project. Saginaw Bay is a candidate reintroduction location, partly because historically lake herring used the bay for spawning and nursery grounds. Remember that lake herring (also called cisco) are native to Lake Huron. There are still lake herring in Lake Huron today but very little in the Michigan waters of the lake south of the straits. The goal (if this ever happens) will be to reestablish a breeding population in these areas. This is not a put-grow-take concept, but rather a reintroduction idea. The hope is that lake herring would become abundant enough to serve as a viable forage fish for Lake Huron's (and Saginaw Bay's) predators. Lake herring too are a popular sport fish in their own right as well. Attachments ----------------  2008lakeherringstocked.jpg (90KB - 129 downloads) | ||
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| walleye express |
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Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | |||
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Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | |||
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Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | I think Shep thought the guy holding the herring was holding an adult fish versus a fingerling. You gotsta read the whole post Shep. Then understanding what you read comes in handy.   Edited by walleye express 8/12/2008 12:36 PM | ||
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