Table 1. Total Harvest Per Hour, Harvest Per Excursion, Number Fish Harvested, and Fishing

Table 1. Total harvest per hour, harvest per excursion, number fish harvested, and fishing effort (angler hours, trips, and charter excursions) for charter boats fishing Michigan waters of Lake Michigan and its tributaries, 2005.

Total harvest Total harvest Species per hour per excursion Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Season

Coho salmon 0.017 0.422 0 0 41 783 1,824 504 473 937 695 29 0 0 5,286

Chinook salmon 0.269 6.571 0 0 0 131 9,780 5,396 18,894 34,953 12,700 445 11 0 82,310

Rainbow trout 0.028 0.687 60 88 405 231 554 1,845 2,458 1,317 402 406 747 98 8,611

Brown trout 0.004 0.086 0 2 40 312 328 71 148 123 36 2 9 2 1,073

Lake trout 0.020 0.492 0 0 0 14 770 1,141 1,593 2,115 525 0 0 1 6,159

Yellow perch 0.020 0.498 0 0 0 14 374 2,020 1,633 1,424 704 68 0 0 6,237

Walleye 0.007 0.163 20 21 4 1 302 422 197 282 335 219 226 15 2,044

Other 0.001 0.030 0 0 2 0 7 101 111 100 23 27 0 0 371

Lamprey on: Chinook salmon 0 0 0 4 178 79 276 453 94 1 0 0 1,085 Lake trout 0 0 0 0 24 32 50 42 21 0 0 0 169

Angler hours 330 943 2,222 4,924 32,305 33,787 70,067 109,950 40,660 5,628 4,338 1,203 306,357

Angler trips 46 132 313 772 5,433 5,756 12,122 19,141 7,273 866 636 175 52,665

Anglers Resident 9 41 132 441 3,705 3,878 8,294 13,784 5,338 448 225 72 36,367 Nonresident 37 91 181 331 1,728 1,878 3,828 5,357 1,935 418 411 103 16,298

Charter excursions 15 39 93 187 1,218 1,336 2,832 4,503 1,787 277 192 47 12,526

Updated 4/27/06