Lake Huron Salmon Disappearance Explained The Detroit Free Press reports that 5 years ago, about 15% of the chinook salmon that biologists sampled from Lake Huron were wild fish, and the other 85% were produced by hatcheries in Michigan. Today, just 20% come from hatcheries and the rest are wild, mostly spawning in Canadian streams. The drop in salmon is due to these fish returning to Canada to spawn (disappearing from the Michigan side) plus the fact that the large population has reduced alewives. On the bright side, the disappearance of salmon seems to be resulting in a big increase in the number of lake trout in Lake Huron. Read Salmon Sink and Swim in the Freep Posted/updated Apr 22, 2005 by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan) click to Send This Story to a Friend! Main Michigan News Page Go Back One Page

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