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There’s some big news for the eastern part of our region. Lake trout have been restored to Lake Champlain. The native species ...
That means DEC, along with its partners in the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ...
Given the latest surveys, the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative ... you want to see more lake trout — and a really big step forward, Pientka said.
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Some 26,000 new salmon are now swimming in Lake Champlain. A fish biologist with New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation says the goal is for salmon to ...
Lake trout populations in Lake Champlain are now self-sustaining, eliminating the need for stocking. This success follows a decades-long program to control sea lamprey, a parasitic fish harming ...
The restoration is the result of a decades-long fish stocking program. Lake Champlain’s native lake trout were extirpated by the late 1800s. In 1972, NYSDEC, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife ...
PLATTSBURGH — Lake Champlain, long known anecdotally as one of the best fisheries in the nation, has gained official recognition of such a title. FishingBooker, one of the world’s largest platforms ...
This is the 5th and final year of a pilot program that raises young salmon in protected pens in hopes of helping to boost the ...
Lake Champlain is 125 miles long and has more than 587 miles of shoreline. It’s also home to 318 species of birds, 81 fish species ... or around the edge of a big field. This loop has a nice ...