After a 40-year population dip, the native lake herring is now considered the most abundant fish species in Lake Superior. For anglers, the record lake herring, or cisco, population means bigger, ...

A small, crucial fish that lives in the cold, deep waters of Lake Superior just had one of its healthiest years in at least four decades. Potentially record numbers of lake herring — also called cisco ...

KNIFE RIVER — On good November mornings, Steve Dahl can pull 400 to 800 pounds of Lake Superior herring from his nets. But this was not a good morning. Guiding his 18-foot herring skiff into the Knife ...

SHEBOYGAN - Try to imagine Lake Michigan in the 18th century. Before man-made channels eased the way for transoceanic shipping, before aquatic invasive species flooded in, before byproducts of the ...

The number of cisco, sometimes called lake herring, now swimming in Lake Superior is the most since at least 1978, the biggest year class on record, according to trawling survey data from the U.S.

DULUTH — Lake Superior anglers, your Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fisheries team needs your help. Fisheries biologists are in the midst of multiple scientific studies and need samples ...