When I started my career as a DNR fisheries management biologist in northern Michigan in the 1970s, there were fewer muskie waters available. Also, the overall size structure of muskies in them was much smaller than now.
The area I started in – the western Upper Peninsula – had more viable muskie waters than many areas of the state, but the size structure of muskie in those water bodies was much smaller. What changes happened to result in the overall size structure to improve for muskies in Michigan waters?
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