Reports & Resources

There are many resources to help improve our understanding of coaster brook trout and guide rehabilitation efforts. Listed below are links to research and management updates and supplementary information.

Trout Unlimited Science Summary and Recommendations Report

• The Coaster Challenge: Restoring a Native Brook Trout Fishery to Lake Superior

Coaster Connection Newsletters

• Spring 2004
• Summer 2004
• Spring 2005

Documents (PDF Files)

• Great Lakes Fishery Commission Fish-Community Objectives
  for Lake Superior 2003
• A Brook Trout Rehabilitation Plan for Lake Superior 2003
• Status of Brook Trout in Lake Superior
• Wisconsin Lake Superior Basin Brook Trout Plan (2005)
• Fisheries Management Plan for the Minnesota Waters of Lake Superior (2006)
• Minnesota DNR Coaster Status Report (2007)
• Coaster Brook Trout Stream Habitat (TU-Canada 2004)
• Lake Superior Coaster Brook Trout Initiative Directory
• Bibliography

Websites

• Great Lakes Fishery Commission
• Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
• Minnesota Sea Grant
• Trout Unlimited Canada Coaster Website
•  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Ashland Fishery Resource Office
• Journal Papers resulting from the Lake Superior Brook Trout Initiative
• USFWS Site regarding the petition to list Coaster Brook Trout under the Endangered Species Act

For additional information please contact Laura Hewitt at Trout Unlimited at (608) 250-3534 or by email.