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Article: Lake trout stage a comeback in Lake Superior.
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- Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN)
- Article date:
- January 22, 2002
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Byline: Sam Cook
DULUTH, Minn. _ Tom Eckel, a Grand Marais commercial fisherman for 60 years, has seen a lot of change on the big lake in his lifetime.
He saw the heyday of lake trout commercial fishing in the 1940s. He saw the demise of lake trout in the 1950s, finished off by the invasion of the sea lamprey. Lately, he's been seeing a lot more native lake trout in the assessment netting he does for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources each spring and fall.
"We are getting a lot of native fish,'' said Eckel, 76. "That's really increased.''
It's increased to the point that the agency has decided it will stop stocking lake ...