More than 21 million fish, weighing a total of 311 tons, were stocked by the Department of Natural Resources in Michigan public waters this year.
Brown trout, coho salmon, steelhead, walleye and nine other species and one hybrid were among the 21,281,411 fish stocked so far this year, according to the DNR.
The DNR staff made 449 stocking trips to 857 stocking sites, including Great Lakes, inland lakes and rivers. Eighteen specialized stocking trucks traveled 106,000 miles over the course of 2,693 hours to get the job done.
The total includes more than 3 million walleye spring fingerlings. Also included are 14,544 lake sturgeon fingerlings reared at stream-side hatcheries and released in various inland and Great Lake tributary streams.
A breakdown of which state fish hatchery stocked which fish can be seen below:
- Harrietta State Fish Hatchery (west of Cadillac) stocked 916,630 brown and rainbow trout.
- Marquette State Fish Hatchery (near Marquette) stocked 377,076 yearling lake trout, brook trout and splake (a hybrid of lake trout and brook trout).
- Oden State Fish Hatchery (near Petoskey) stocked 647,699 brown and rainbow trout.
- Platte River State Fish Hatchery (near Honor) stocked 3,090,753 fish that included yearling Atlantic and coho salmon, spring fingerling chinook salmon and walleye fry.
- Thompson State Fish Hatchery (near Manistique) stocked 6,944,722 fish that included yearling steelhead, spring fingerling chinook salmon and walleye fry.
- Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery (near Kalamazoo) stocked 6,233,314 fish that included yearling steelhead, spring fingerling chinook salmon, Great Lakes strain muskellunge, walleye fry and channel catfish obtained from the Ohio DNR.
A cooperative teaching hatchery at Lake Superior State University (in Sault Ste. Marie) stocked 19,894 Atlantic salmon.
For more information, visit MichiganDNR.com/FishStock or contact Jan VanAmberg at 906-341-5587, ext. 202 or 906-249-1611, ext. 306 or Elyse Walter at 517-284-5839.
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