The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has introduced new observation technology to track the movement of muskellunge—known as muskie—with acoustic telemetry in Lake Macatawa in Ottawa County, Michigan. As of November 2025, there were over 69,000 detections of the 20 tagged muskie by the acoustic receivers. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.
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