Are there any Atlantic salmon in the Great Lakes?
Are there any Atlantic salmon in the Great Lakes? There is however, one more salmon species that very few Great Lakes anglers have ever caught. The Atlantic salmon is the mystery fish of the Great Lakes for a number or reasons. For one, these salmon are rare and only found in catchable numbers in a handful of places.
What happened to the salmon in Lake Huron?
After their food supply collapsed in 2003, the Chinook salmon population rapidly declined in Lake Huron and has never fully recovered. Instead, native predator fish have flourished, and according to biologists, have created a more diversified fishery.
How did salmon get into the Great Lakes?
Some species of salmon were introduced to the Great Lakes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for sport and commercial fishing, but these populations have not been established and are not self-sustaining.