ASSESSMENT OF ARCTIC GRAYLING RE-INTRODUCTION POTENTIAL IN THE BIG MANISTEE RIVER, MICHIGAN.

• Main Author: Goble, Cameron
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech 2017
• Subjects: Arctic Grayling; Native species restoration; stream ecology; fisheries; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Arctic; Canada; Little River; Arctic grayling; Thymallus arcticus; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etdr/336; https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1468&context=etdr

Arctic Grayling Thymallus arcticus were once the dominant fluvial salmonid species in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. By the late 19th century most populations in the State had experienced drastic declines and by 1936 the species was declared extinct in Michigan. Beginning in 2011 the Little River Band...