Wild lake trout are making a resurgence on Lake Champlain after the native species was eradicated more than a century ago. Anglers and fisheries biologists are celebrating the revival, but the fish ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Learn how invasive species are threatening New York’s waterways. Experts explain how they spread, why they’re dangerous to ecosystems, and what you can do to help stop them. Reflections on the Erie ...

A pile of golden clams from Lake George in 2010. Photo courtesy of the Lake Champlain Basin Program Vermont officials have confirmed the presence of the invasive golden clam in Lake Champlain, ...

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 ...

An unusual clam pulled from Lake Champlain in Whitehall last month has been confirmed as the first known occurrence of the invasive golden clam in the lake. According to the Lake Champlain Basin ...

NORTH HERO, Vt. — Vermont Fish and Wildlife has released 20 baby spiny softshell turtles into Lake Champlain. It's part of a 10-year program in which Fish and Wildlife captures baby turtles in the ...

If you’re looking for the perfect place to cast a line, this majestic lake in Upstate New York is a reel catch. At a whopping 120 miles long, Lake Champlain spans a long stretch of the New ...

After decades of work, wild lake trout have been restored in Lake Champlain and there's no longer a need to stock the lake with hatchery-reared fish, the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management ...