Trout Unlimited and partners are seeking volunteer anglers to contribute to coaster brook trout research by collecting tissue samples from Lake Superior brook trout for genetic testing.
As a volunteer, you’ll get to participate in this fun, easy, and rewarding effort and have another good reason to go fishing. You’ll also be part of a large network of anglers who are volunteering across the Great Lakes as part of the Coaster Genetics Project and receive cool, exclusive swag for your efforts.
The Coaster Genetics Project is a cooperative research project that partners with volunteer anglers to collect brook trout tissue samples for genetic analysis. This highly successful project was started in Minnesota. Now, a new collaboration is bringing the project to the south shore of Lake Superior. This project is brought to you by Trout Unlimited staff and chapters, Department of Natural Resources of Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Michigan State University, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
This project will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the distribution of coaster brook trout in Lake Superior tributaries and help identify sources of lake-captured brook trout. This information will help guide future coaster brook trout rehabilitation efforts in the Lake Superior watershed.
Trout Unlimited will provide all the necessary tools and training needed. We will not request GPS coordinates or highly detailed location information. Rather, we will break up the shoreline into segments and ask you to let us know in which segment the brook trout was caught.
Jake Lemon
Field and Research Manager
jlemon@tu.org
616-302-1729
