The shortnose cisco, a species of freshwater whitefish, likely went extinct in the Great Lakes during the 1980s, scientists ...

After nearly being wiped out in the mid-20th century, one of the Great Lakes' top native fish species has "fully recovered" in the world's greatest freshwater lake, according to natural resource ...

The Shortnose Cisco was once abundant on the Great Lakes, but overfishing and invasive species such as sea lamprey, zebra and ...

Biological invasions sometimes are seen as an inevitable result of modern life, but like other human impacts on inland waters ...

Once-rare lake trout in Lake Superior are doing ... and devastation from the invasive sea lamprey. Joint efforts by ...

As officials continue to clean up and evaluate the impact of hurricanes Helene and Milton, preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows that more than a hundred invasive species ...

“We have the largest freshwater lake in the world, the top species in that freshwater ... known for controlling the invasive sea lamprey population. The Lake Superior Committee made the ...

Decades of fisheries management programs led to huge improvement in the number of lake trout, which were nearly wiped out in the Great Lakes.

"The fabled Lake Superior Shortnose collected July ... Great Lakes ecosystem disrupted over generations by significant invasive species, changing nutrient dynamics and other stresses, said Randall ...