"The mission of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division Research and Evaluation Program is to provide information, models and advice to make possible science-based management of Michigan's fishery resources. Since 1967, the Department has maintained a research station on Lake Michigan at Charlevoix, to fulfill the mission with emphasis on aquatic resources of Lake Michigan and its tributaries. This station was the first state-operated research facility dedicated to fisheries assessment work on the Great Lakes. The station facilities include a 63' survey vessel S/V Steelhead for off-shore assessment work, a 23' boat (the R/V Pimephales) for near-shore work, as well as laboratory areas and equipment. Initially, the research conducted at the Charlevoix station focused on assessment of commercially important fish species including lake trout, lake whitefish, and bloater chubs. In the 1980's and 1990's, research activities were expanded to include recreational creel surveys, tagging programs, studies of introduced salmonids, and evaluation of inshore fishes such as yellow perch and round goby. Charlevoix researchers are involved in significant collaborative research efforts with personnel from other state and governmental agencies as well as many of the universities in the Great Lakes region. This work includes lake trout early life history research, population modeling efforts, studies of various anadromous salmon and trout populations, lake herring and lake whitefish early life-history research, as well as state-of-the-art fish age and growth evaluations."
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