LAKE CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The lake trout population has been restored in Lake Champlain, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) announced on Tuesday. The ...

Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist Bernie Pientka holds up a wild juvenile lake trout during a population survey on Lake Champlain. Hatchery fish have clipped fins, but wild ...

The final round of lake trout stocking in Lake Champlain in Spring 2025. Courtesy of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department A decades-long effort to increase wild lake trout stock has recorded a ...

Lake trout populations in Lake Champlain are now self-sustaining, eliminating the need for stocking. This success follows a decades-long program to control sea lamprey, a parasitic fish harming lake ...

Lake trout disappeared from Lake Champlain by 1900, the victims of pollution, overfishing, and the invasive sea lamprey. Biologists have... May 02, 2025 — Lake trout disappeared from Lake Champlain by ...

It took more than four decades, but the lake trout population in Lake Champlain is now self-sustaining, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. That means DEC, along ...

There’s some big news for the eastern part of our region. Lake trout have been restored to Lake Champlain. The native species was decimated by pollution, overfishing and the invasive sea lamprey. But ...

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On a recent morning in May, a crew of scientists aboard a research vessel in the middle of Lake Champlain untangled a big commercial fishing net, preparing to drop it into the dark depths of the lake.

After decades of work, wild lake trout have been restored in Lake Champlain and there's no longer a need to stock the lake with hatchery-reared fish, the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management ...