189 - Fish Tales: Darwin’s Finches of the Great Lakes

This week we are featuring our first Fish Tales episode, an article written and submitted by Stewart Allison McFerran!

Stewart is a a contributing writer for the Freshwater Reporter and  works at the Cognition Science and Discover Center in Beulah Michigan. He also volunteers at Northwestern Michigan College radio station WNMC in Traverse City and has been an active member of the Great Lakes Fisheries Heritage Trail group. This Spring he attended the group's conference in Saint Ignace Michigan. Learn more about the Great Lakes Fisheries Heritage Trail group here.

 

His article is titled “Darwin’s Finches of the Great Lakes: Whitefish Before and After Commercial Fishing” and was originally published in the Grand Traverse Journal on June 1, 2015. Check out the original article in the Grand Traverse Journal here!

 

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