Recently there's been a serious effort to reintroduce the lake trout back into its natural habitat. This effort has not met with the greatest success. They're tracing it back to the formation of the eggs in the female . . . There's something that's affecting the production and growth of the embryos. It's starting way up the chain . . .
Trout are something like the coal miner's canary .
They are the first thing that's going to get affected. We alternate between three lakes because the Tribes have rights to fish in the upper three Great Lakes, Superior, Michigan and Huron . . . We do twelve lake trout and twelve white fish in each lake on a rotating basis. In Lake Huron we had dioxins that were high, in Lake Michigan, PCBs seemed to be high, and Lake Superior, toxaphene seems to be high. Mike Ripley, Sault Ste.