Grayling to be released in two of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula inland lakes

For the first time in more than a century, Arctic grayling soon will be swimming in Michigan public waters as part of the ongoing Michigan Arctic Grayling Initiative.
That program seeks to establish a self-sustaining, naturally reproducing grayling population in several Michigan rivers. For the past four years the DNR has been collecting eggs and rearing fish in the state fish hatchery system in an effort to move that program forward. The rearing efforts have resulted in a relatively small number of leftover brood stock grayling. They average about 15 inches in length. The DNR plans to release a few hundred of them later this fall into two Upper Peninsula lakes.

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