Updated decision analysis to inform multi-species salmonine management in Lake Michigan

USGS researchers at the Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are using decision analysis to help inform multi-species salmon management in Lake Michigan. The recreational fishery for salmonine species in Lake Michigan (lake trout, Chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead, and brown trout) is largely maintained through stocking. Decisions about how many of each species to stock require an understanding of how to maintain a sustainable balance of predators (salmonine species) to prey (alewife) in the lake. Abstract narrative source: USFWS Cooperator Science Series.