LANSING (AP) -- Michigan environmental officials are proposing a new regulatory category for trout streams in the Upper Peninsula that would enable anglers to keep more fish.
Trout streams presently are placed in one of four categories. The Department of Natural Resources wants to create a new "Type Five" stream where the daily possession limit would be 10 brook trout and the minimum size limit would be seven inches.
All or parts of 10 Upper Peninsula rivers and tributary streams would be put in the new group. They are currently classified as "Type One" streams, which have a daily possession limit of five fish and a 7-inch minimum size limit.
The DNR will make a final decision next month. If approved, the regulation will take effect next April.
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