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The lake is speckled with many islands and rock beds that often creep over the waterline in late summer and fall. Common fish include smallmouth bass, northern pike, walleye, rock bass, and even whitefish in the deeper parts. Michigamme is an Ojibwe Anishinaabe name meaning "middle large sea". [4]
There are 35 species and subspecies of threatened fish in Michigan. Of these, eight are species of special concern, nine are threatened and another nine are listed as endangered. An additional nine species that previously had populations in Michigan are now considered extinct in that state. None of the federally listed species of threatened ...
Lake herring or northern cisco (Coregonus artedi) Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) Lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis) Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) Longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus) Menominee or round whitefish ...
The Michigamme River (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ə ɡ ɒ m i / mish-ə-GAH-mee) is a 67.0-mile-long (107.8 km) [1] tributary of the Menominee River on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Via the Menominee River, its water flows to Lake Michigan .
A major threat to the lake whitefish is an invasive parasite species, the sea lamprey. It is one of a number of species (in addition to the lake trout and lake herring) aggressively attacked by sea lamprey. In Lake Michigan the sea lamprey began to decimate indigenous fish populations in the 1930s and 1940s.
Lake Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ 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 depth (923 ft; 281 m) after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (22,405 sq mi; 58,030 km 2), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron.
The bowfin (Amia calva) is a ray-finned fish native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique.It is regarded as a relict, being one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi, a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic, around 250 million years ago.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Michigan.. Major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).