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There are currently 56 species listed as prohibited or restricted in Michigan. This includes 17 species of fish, 11 species of mollusks, and 21 species of aquatic plants. [9] This list is regularly amended through Invasive Species Orders. In 2014, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources added 9 species to the prohibited species list.
The king rail, endangered in Michigan. There are 42 threatened species and subspecies of birds in Michigan. Of these, 18 are listed as species of special concern, 14 as threatened and 9 as endangered. One additional species is listed as extinct in Michigan, although it previously had a population in the state.
Anglers gear up each Michigan fishing season to traverse the state's waters, which teem with 154 species of fish including trout, salmon, walleye, blue gill and bass.
Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer.
Bluegill were among the species of fish tested in Michigan. Fourteen different PFAS chemicals were detected, with a range of 11,000 to 133,000 parts per trillion. One chemical in particular, known ...
American gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) American eel (Anguilla rostrata) Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) Black buffalo (Ictiobus Niger) Black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) Black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) Bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) Brook (five-spined) stickleback (Culaea inconstans)
The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), also known as the rock sturgeon, [7] is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon.Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder and has a partly cartilaginous skeleton, an overall streamlined shape, and skin bearing rows of bony plates on the sides and back.
Lake Michigan (/ ˈmɪʃɪɡən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume [ 5 ] (1,180 cu mi (4,900 km 3)) and the third-largest by surface area (22,405 sq mi (58,030 km 2)), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron.