They catch chinook salmon, coho salmon, lake trout, rainbow trout, and brown trout. His crew cleans and bags up to five fish per customer only two lake trout , which they can take home to eat. That might worry some people who have heard unsettling things about Lake Michigan fish.
With stories of polluted waters swirling, Reiser watches out for government-issued fish advisories and eats seafood in moderation. But he says fish from any waters can contain contaminants.
I believe the government does put higher standards on it, just as a safety precaution just to cover — no pun intended — their own tail. Since , the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and IEPA have nabbed fish mainly bass, channel catfish and carp from locations in Illinois for contaminant testing. I asked Hornshaw point-blank: Is it safe to eat fish from Lake Michigan? State agencies keep a running list of current fish advisories statewide , which vary by species and body of water. They also change over time.
Take the yellow perch, Perca flavescens. Fish less than 11 inches long, the Illinois DNR says, should be eaten at most once per week. But you should only eat perch larger than 11 inches once per month. Likewise lake trout, a popular sport fish can that grow up to three feet long, carries three tiers of advisories: less than 25 inches? One meal per month; inches? Six meals per year; larger than 29 inches? Do not eat. Indiana, too, updates its fish consumption advisories online. One of the major culprits are a group of chemicals known as PCBs.
Polychlorinated biphenyls are a group of man-made chemicals useful in a variety of industrial processes , including the insulation and cooling of electrical equipment. Native mussel larvae instead temporarily latch onto the gills of fish until they drop off and start their lives on the lake bottom.
Native mussels are disappearing from Michigan waters, primarily as a result of the invasion of zebra and quagga mussels. Dozens of zebra mussels are stacked on this native mussel, called a fatmucket Lampsilis siliquoidea. They can seal the fatmucket shut, killing it. Image: Kurt Stepnitz. Zebras have, however, spread in many rivers. Boat traffic is also a major issue in the lakes, Zanatta said. Back at Houghton Lake, Tabitha Sutterfield plans to continue scraping zebra mussels from every live native mussel she finds within 50 feet of the dock.
She, her grandfather and her aunt have been doing that for several years now, and have seen a difference. While they cannot find a single living native mussel just a short walk to the east or west in the lake, they can quickly spot three to four dozen living native mussels still making their trails in the sand around the dock.
I think the clams in our lake started to disappear long before the zebra mussels appeared about 4 years ago. We are a private lake of 80 acres and had loads of clams BEFORE they stated putting chemicals into the lake to fight the milfoil which we have had since we moved onto the lake in The chemical spraying started around Our lake has so much more foul smelling silt or what us old timers call sludge.
All because the new comers on the lake want a weed free play area which began as a marrow pit. We are killing our lakes and streams by being selfish and disrespectful to our waterways.
The habitat for so many species has been tampered with and our grandchildren may never see the beauty of what once was. Many studies show Perch are prime predators of zebra mussels, and do quite well even increase around them. Case in point in Huron Perch Walleye other native fish are rebounding very well, in the middle of the mussels. Almost all authorized survey work for mussels that is performed in Michigan involves non-lethal collection methods and stream or lake side data collection.
This approach leads to quick and efficient release of specimens back to the location they were collected from. Applicants should keep this in mind when designing study plans for working with mussels. Permits will not be issued to collect and possess live native mussels for the sole purpose of education.
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