Rainbow Trout Catch Rates at Nine
Lake Huron Ports in the Main Basin
Charlevoix Fisheries Station
RBTHU
0.7
Year
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MDNR started stocking mainly Little Manistee River strain rainbow trout in 1993 (naturalized stock 130 years in Lake Michigan).
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They since moved to cessation of stocking domestic strain rainbow trout.
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The catch rates of rainbow trout in U.S. waters of Lake Huron jumped in 1995 due to this change in strain.
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Catch rates declined in 1998 but have increased since and the 2000 catch rate was above the long-term average.
