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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Two Strategies, One Goal: Bringing Back Walleye Waters In The Northwoods
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:47
	Publish Date:		2019-12-05 07:29:28
	Description:		Perhaps more than any other fish, northern Wisconsin identifies with the walleye. But walleye populations in many local lakes have been struggling. Some are even at risk of disappearing completely, as the populations are no longer naturally reproducing. Fisheries biologists have had to get creative to try to address the problem, and they’re doing it in different ways in different parts of the Northwoods. The Minocqua chain is a prime example. “The walleye population in the entire chain was very, very dismal,” said Mike Vogelsang, the DNR’s Northern Region Fisheries Supervisor. In 2015, walleye densities on the chain, which includes Minocqua, Kawaguesaga, and Tomahawk lakes, were dangerously low, and the population wasn’t reproducing. “I don’t think we have a good idea why, initially, natural reproduction started failing,” said Mark Luehring, an inland fisheries biologist with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC). Even though Vogelsang, Luehring, and their
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