A More Local Restoration Project - Gardening With Fishes, Sort Of...

[flowerbug]

at least when you consider what it takes to manage a fishery these days with all the various histories, extinctions, diseases, and introduced species which make life completely different.

i came across this news story today, and am now enjoying reading about what they've been doing.

See the fish that will repopulate Michigan waters with native Arctic grayling

The salmonid disappeared from Michigan in the 1930s.

www.mlive.com

i'm not sure that article will be generally available but in case it isn't they are talking about this project:

Michigan Arctic Grayling Initiative

Restore self-sustaining populations of Arctic Grayling within its historical range in Michigan

www.migrayling.org

and the step they are doing now is getting the yearling fishies they've raised from eggs to spawn. good luck fishies. make lotsa babies!

 

[PhilaGardener]

I liked the fish planting unit!

 

[flowerbug]

I liked the fish planting unit!

sometimes they drop fish from planes. these fishies are going into tanks to be raised for a few more years before they will spawn. i thought in reading at first that they would be spawning soon, but that is not the case. it looks like a few more years of waiting. i hope they can hold on and reach their goals, but it is important even to try IMO even if they fail in the process.