Lake Michigan Management Reports
Fishing Wisconsin
The management reports listed below are updated regularly and contain information on various topics from our Lake Michigan program. Browse the left-hand side menu bar to view additional reports for other topic areas.
Green Bay Great Lakes Spotted Musky Management Plan
Reports to the Lake Michigan Committee
- Lake Michigan Yellow Perch Summit Summary Report [PDF]
- A Guide for the Rehabilitation of Lake Trout in Lake Michigan [PDF]
- A Fisheries Management Implementation Strategy for the Rehabilitation of Lake Trout in Lake Michigan [PDF]
Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Plan Reports
- Lake Michigan Integrated Fisheries Management Plan, 2017-2026 [PDF]
- Lake Michigan Integrated Fisheries Management Plan, 2017-2026 Appendix [PDF]
Lake Michigan Management Reports
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Management Reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 2023 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Management Reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 2022 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Management Reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 2021 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Management Reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 2020 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Management Reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 2019 [PDF]
Great Lakes Salmon and Trout Reports
- Expenditures of Great Lakes Salmon and Trout Revenues, Fiscal Years 2018-2021 [PDF]
- Expenditures of Great Lakes Salmon and Trout Revenues, Fiscal Years 2016-2017 [PDF]
- Expenditures of Great Lakes Salmon and Trout Revenues, Fiscal Years 2014-2015 [PDF]
Lake Michigan Salmonid Stocking
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Salmonid Stocking Program, July 2023 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Salmonid Stocking Program, May 2020 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Salmonid Stocking Program, May 2019 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Salmonid Stocking Program, May 2018 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Fin Clip Summary 2008 - 2019 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Fin Clip Summary 2007 - 2018 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Fin Clip Summary 2006 - 2017 [PDF]
Lake Michigan Sport Harvest
- Green Bay ice creel harvest tables, 2014-2021 [PDF]
- Lake Michigan salmon and trout harvest tables, 2006-2023 [PDF]
- Lake Michigan salmon and trout harvest tables, 1996-2023 [PDF]
- Lake Michigan yellow perch harvest tables, 1986-2023 [PDF]
- Wisconsin's 2022 Open Water Sportfishing Effort and Catch from Lake Michigan and Green Bay [PDF]
- Wisconsin's 2021 Open Water Sportfishing Effort and Catch from Lake Michigan and Green Bay [PDF]
- Wisconsin's 2020 Open Water Sportfishing Effort and Catch from Lake Michigan and Green Bay [PDF]
- Wisconsin's 2019 Open Water Sportfishing Effort and Catch from Lake Michigan and Green Bay [PDF]
- Wisconsin's 2018 Open Water Sportfishing Effort and Catch from Lake Michigan and Green Bay [PDF]
Lake Michigan Assessments
- Smallmouth bass sport fishery assessment, Washington Island/Detroit Harbor, 2014, 2022 [PDF]
- Smallmouth bass sport fishery assessment in Sturgeon Bay/LIttle Sturgeon Bay 2017, 2021 [PDF]
- A Profile Of Behaviors, Awareness and Management Opinions Of Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Salmonid Anglers[PDF]
- Menomonee River Fish Passage Report [PDF]
- Northern Pike movement study in the Lower Milwaukee River and Harbor using sonic tagging, 2011-2014 [PDF]
- Green Bay walleye tagging survey 2018 [PDF]
- Green Bay walleye tagging survey 2017 [PDF]
- Green Bay walleye tagging survey 2016 [PDF]
- Green Bay brown trout and fall tributary surveys 2017 [PDF]
- Green Bay brown trout and fall tributary surveys 2016 [PDF]
- Natural reproduction of salmonids in Lake Michigan tributaries of Wisconsin [PDF]
Lake Michigan Weir Assessments
Root River Steelhead Facility (RRSF)
- Root River Summary Spring 2024 [PDF]
- Root River Summary Fall 2023 [PDF]
- Root River Summary Spring 2023 [PDF]
- Root River Summary Fall 2022[PDF]
- Root River Summary Spring 2022[PDF]
- Root River Steelhead Facility 2019 - 2020 Report [PDF]
Besadny Anadromous Fisheries Facility
- Return, Size, Age and Movement of Steelhead at the Besadny Anadromous Fisheries Facility, 2011 [PDF]
- Return, Size, Age and Movement of Steelhead at the Besadny Anadromous Fisheries Facility, 2010 [PDF]
Strawberry Creek Weir
- Strawberry Creek Weir Summary 2023 [PDF]
- Strawberry Creek Weir Summary 2022 [PDF]
- Strawberry Creek Weir Summary 2021 [PDF]
- Strawberry Creek Weir Summary 2020 [PDF]
- Strawberry Creek Weir Summary 2019 [PDF]
- Strawberry Creek Weir Summary 2018 [PDF]
- Strawberry Creek Weir Summary 2017 [PDF]
- Strawberry Creek Weir Summary 2016 [PDF]
Lake Michigan Commercial Assessments
- Harvest and bycatch associated with bottom trawling for Lake Whitefish in Lake Michigan from 2015 to 2018 [PDF]
- Commercial Trawler Video Monitoring Report Dec 2020 - July 2021 [PDF]
- Commercial Trawler Video Monitoring Report Dec 2021 - July 2022 [PDF]
- Commercial Trawler Video Monitoring Report Dec 2022 - July 2023 [PDF]