The DNR will hold a Feb. 13 hearing on a proposal to establish a commercial fishery for lake trout on Lake Michigan.

An unusually poor collection of lake trout during the Illinois DNR’s sampling of Lake Michigan sites last May was followed by ...

The Michigan sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake ended after 17 minutes when the quota of six fish was reached.

The season opened at 8 a.m. on Saturday and was declared closed at 8:17 a.m. by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

The annual lake sturgeon season is known to be the shortest of the Michigan’s fishing seasons. Today, it lasted just 17 ...

Scientists say Lake Michigan’s winter season is getting shorter, disrupting fish populations, nutrient cycles and even summer ...

This year, models gave a more accurate, more dire picture. “Even if we bring [commercial fishing] harvest to zero, the lakes ...

Jay Woiderski, president of the Black Lake Chapter of Sturgeon for Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization that works to conserve ...

Saginaw Bay was ranked as the fourth-best ice fishing spot in the U.S. by FishBooker, which looked at such things as location ...

The fishing season for Lake Sturgeon in Black Lake can last a few days or a few minutes, but getting to this point took a long time.

It was a memorable day for the Black Lake sturgeon season, which finished in a record-breaking 17 minutes and featured close to 800 anglers.