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Manistee’s fish stocking pays off if we keep investing

More than 820,700 fish were stocked in 2025. Columnist Ken Grabowski urges sustained DNR-tribal partnerships to keep Manistee’s fishing economy thriving.
Anglers in Clare and Isabella counties are just two of the beneficiaries of a Michigan Department of Natural Resources fish stocking program. The state operates six hatcheries and two others that are ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Department of Natural Resources is celebrating another successful year of fish stocking, adding more than 9 million fish to the Michigan wilderness through the spring ...
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has released millions of fish into Ohio's lakes and rivers as part of its stocking program. ODNR announced this week that it released more than 46 million fish ...
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) - - The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians said it has successfully completed its annual walleye and whitefish stocking efforts in the waters of the 1836 ...
LANSING, MI -- Plenty of fishing opportunities await Michigan anglers this fall. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced this week that 9,118,112 fish weighing nearly 321 tons were ...
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it has stockpiled Michigan waters with 18 million fish so far this year. Fish stocking, a process in which officials raise and release both cool and ...
Did your chance to catch a fish in Michigan just go up 9.1 million times? Probably not, but the state did stock that many fish into Michigan waters this spring and summer. A total of 9,118,112 fish ...
COLCHESTER, Conn. (WFSB) - Fall fish stocking is in full swing for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection after hitting a snag with low water levels this year. A bulk of the ...
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources stocked nearly 19 million fish this spring and summer. The fish, which weighed more than 331.5 tons, included 10 different species and one hybrid, ...