The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Vermont Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department will join partners from the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative ...

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 ...

As of spring 2025, Lake Champlain’s lake trout population is now self-sustaining, a goal that has been in the works for more than 50 years. After joining forces over multiple decades, Vermont, New ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.