Count of Lake Michigan’s declining lake whitefish in process

Earlier this year, fisheries biologists up north sounded alarms about an ominous trend threatening one of the Great Lakes’ most foundational and key fish species: lake whitefish.
Though not commonly caught by Illinois anglers, lake whitefish are native to Lake Michigan, and therefore Illinois. The species swims in schools and hunts for food near the bottom of the lake, eating plankton, crustaceans, mollusks, and insect larvae.

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