There’s some big news for the eastern part of our region. Lake trout have been restored to Lake Champlain. The native species was decimated by pollution, overfishing and the invasive sea lamprey. But ...

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 ...

On a recent morning in May, a crew of scientists aboard a research vessel in the middle of Lake Champlain untangled a big commercial fishing net, preparing to drop it into the dark depths of the lake.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The lake trout population has been restored in Lake Champlain, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) announced on Tuesday. The ...

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 ...

Fisheries personnel from the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation were at the Plattsburgh marina today to begin the last year of an effort to restore Atlantic Salmon into Lake ...

The Patrick Leahy-Lake Champlain Basin Program has issued its 2024 State of the Lake and Ecosystems Indicators report. Produced every three years, it documents efforts to manage the lake, its ...

As of spring 2025, Lake Champlain’s lake trout population is now self-sustaining, a goal that has been in the works for more than 50 years. After joining forces over multiple decades, Vermont, 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 ...