Arctic Grayling

Northern Michigan tribes are releasing Arctic grayling for the second year in a row, in hopes of restoring the native freshwater species. Questions remain about how many have already survived and how to adapt to shifting weather from climate change.

The release follows years of planning and months spent carefully raising the fish, from which the City of Grayling got its name.

The fish will be released into three northern Michigan rivers.

The arctic grayling vanished from Michigan in the 1930s, but the salmon-like fish could soon make a comeback. Around 500,000 fertilized eggs could be stocked this spring.

The project could make the river more appealing to arctic grayling — a fish species that disappeared from the state around 90 years ago.

Three lakes were recently stocked with a fish that went extinct nearly 90 years ago in Michigan.