LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The Michigan Department of Natural Resource (DNR) plans to add nearly 800,000 Chinook salmon to Lake Michigan to help fight alewife fish, which are an invasive species.

Reports of alewife fish washing up onto shores of Lake Michigan indicate that those numbers are continuing to grow.

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The DNR say the addition will not only help combat the Alewife, but should help with the fishing industry as a whole.