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Sturgeon studies and students
Great Lakes Echo (4/2)
Researchers at Michigan’s Black Lake are studying threats to sturgeon and using their findings to teach biology to students from kindergarten through high school.
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What is the largest kind of fish the Great Lakes?
from Joshua in Dunrobin, Ontario, Age 11
The single largest fish catch that we have on record is a lake trout reeled in from Lake Superior in 1997. It measured 49 inches in length (that's just over four feet) and weighed 61.5 pounds!
Related references:
TEACH: Great Lakes Fish and Fishing
GLIN: Fish and Fisheries of the Great Lakes Region
Thank you for your question!
Answered on May 18, 2001