- Bridge Michigan has spent months chronicling the ongoing Great Lakes whitefish collapse
- Now, we’re teaming up with Detroit PBS to bring the story to your screens
- Watch the episode on TV Monday at 7:30 p.m., or stream online now
Bridge Michigan has spent the past several months chronicling the demise of the lower Great Lakes whitefish, investigating causes, consequences and potential solutions.
Now, we’re teaming up with Detroit PBS to bring the story to your screens with the latest episode of Great Lakes Now.
Once among the most abundant species in the Great Lakes, Michigan’s beloved whitefish are now on the brink of collapse in lakes Michigan and Huron, victims of a European mussel invasion that has upended the underwater food web.
For decades now, whitefish have struggled to reproduce, their hatchlings starving or burning to death in lakes stripped so bare of plankton, they’re as clear as bathwater…