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Also See
FishWatch - U.S. Seafood Facts (NOAA)
Great Lakes Observing System
Great Lakes Fisheries Leadership Institute
Huron Erie Corridor Initiative
Opportunities and Efforts Towards a Lake Herring Rehabilitation Program (WMV)
Project F.I.S.H.
 Whitefish Marketing

Rainbow Smelt
Osmerus mordax

  • Migrated into Lake Michigan (from a connecting inland lake) in 1923 and then to other Great Lakes
  • Contributed to collapse of lake herring population of Great Lakes, according to many scientists
  • Successful commercial rainbow smelt trawl fishery in Lake Michigan and in Canadian waters of Lake Erie


Native Fish Species
Bass (Large & Smallmouth)
Burbot
Lake Herring
Lake Trout
Lake Whitefish
Walleye
Yellow Perch
Lake Sturgeon

Non-native Fish Species
Brown Trout
Chinook Salmon
 Coho Salmon
Common Carp
Rainbow Smelt

Updated: 08/15/2008
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