MANISTEE COUNTY, MI – Maintaining Michigan’s world-class fishery is a big job.
It involves fishing regulations, habitat management, addressing invasive species – and rearing and stocking fish.
On Tuesday, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources plans to begin its spring collection of steelhead trout eggs at the Little Manistee River Weir. The goal is to collect 4.5 million eggs that will be stocked in Great Lakes tributaries in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio…