Chinooks' signals have DNRs worried over lake's balance

Chicago Sun-Times | October 11, 1998| | Copyright

In the late 1980s, a stroller along Lake Michigan's shoreline almost always would pass the rotting carcass of a big chinook salmon.

Barely 20 years into the stocking of salmon and trout in Lake Michigan, the lake was rejecting its kings. In 1986, Illinois had its banner year for catching kings - chinook salmon - with 9.5 million pounds harvested. Then the great die-off came. By 1990, 80 percent of Lake Michigan's chinook were dead. BKD (bacterial kidney disease) was the main culprit.

It was not pretty. "It was an embarrassment," said Rich Hess, the longtime biologist for the Illinois ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Liberty, Dominion and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180-398)
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review ; ...from religious freedom under Constantine and his successors to focused explorations of Donatism and the figures of Lucifer of Cagliari and Hilary of Poitiers. Last, "The Age of Ambrose" devotes four chapters to the shorter period 374-398. Much...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Chinooks' signals have DNRs worried over lake's ..."