A new approach to tagging could help improve efficiencies in Michigan’s $11 million fish stocking program following promising results from a two-year pilot study in the Upper Peninsula.
Michigan DNR biologist Jennifer Johnson outlined the parentage-based tagging technique and results from research on walleye in several waterways in Iron and Dickinson counties at the Natural Resources Commission’s October meeting in Marquette.
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