One of the state's most iconic fish are struggling with several environmental stressors. Regulators will take up the issue on ...

The relay swim, in honor of 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, will cover 411 miles and aims to ...

Whitefish, historically, have been among the most abundant native fish in the Great Lakes, and that's why they've sort of earned our love and respect as a society.

Commercial fishing on the Great Lakes was built on lake whitefish, but for the past two decades, that species has been on the decline. It's now on the brink of collapse in parts of two of the lakes.

Changes in ecosystems have transformed the fishing industry, and that's bad news for whitefish in the Great Lakes. The fish is an important and popular commercial species, but its numbers in some ...

The project is using a technique called close-kin mark-recapture which will allow scientists to genotype the lake whitefish ...

Commercial fishing on the Great Lakes was built on lake whitefish, but for the past two decades, that species has been on the decline. It's now on the brink of collapse in parts of two of the ...

Commercial fishing on the Great Lakes was built on lake whitefish, but for the past two decades, that species has been on the decline. It's now on the brink of collapse in parts of two of the lakes.