Is Wisconsin`s Prized Brook Trout in Danger?

How environmentally conscious anglers can slow the pace of an invasive species

The New Zealand mudsnail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) has made its way, uninvited, into Wisconsin streams and is sharing an environment with the native brook trout, a prized sport fish. In the unglaciated driftless region—a 24,000 square-mile area in southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa and northwest Illinois—600 cold water spring-fed streams provide an ideal habitat for brook trout and a fishing paradise for anglers. A 2016 study estimated that the annual economic impact of trout fishing in the driftless region is $1.6 billion....

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