They say there’s plenty of fish in the sea, but what about lake trout in the Great Lakes? If you based your dating odds on this species in the 1960s, it wouldn’t be good… Lake trout were locally extinct in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario then. 😬💔 Learn more: https://ow.ly/kA4U50QOUe8
If you reel in a lake trout from Lake Erie or Lake Ontario, there’s a good chance it was hatched at a national fish hatchery. Every spring, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stocks more than 500,000 of these fish in the Great Lakes. “We put them in as year-old fish and hope that they grow to ad…
