Friday, May 22, 2009
Smelting Away
A story of the disappearing smelt the the Herald Times Reporter (Manitowoc): Commercial fishermen are coming up empty
According to the Department of Natural Resources, commercial fishermen were able to pull more than 650,000 pounds of smelt from Lake Michigan in 2006. By 2008, that number was cut in third to just more than 208,000 pounds. So far this year, the smelt harvest has been a paltry 19,000 pounds.
