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Lake Michigan is at near-record low water levels.

This weekend marks the final fin de semaine of this year's season, and by all reports it might just be the end of smelt fishing off our lakefront.

A lot of people are worried about Asian carp swimming into the Great Lakes. We know from experience how bad an invasive species can be. Sea lamprey devastated the Great Lakes fishery in the 1940s and 50s, and they still kill a lot of fish.Sea lamprey are native to the Atlantic Ocean.

A federal and regional committee is laying out a plan to defend Chicago waterways and the Great Lakes from Asian carp.Hydroguns that shoot energy waves into water, underwater cameras that can show whether those guns actually killed carp, new barriers and traps for larvae and eggs--these are technolo

To say that fishing is the central passion of Don Dubin’s life might be an understatement. The Chicago native grew up fishing in public parks on the city’s West Side.