Researchers on Lake Champlain are doubling down on years of research to try to figure out how tiny pieces of toxic plastic ...

Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist Bernie Pientka holds up a wild juvenile lake trout during a population survey on Lake Champlain. Hatchery fish have clipped fins, but ...

Photo courtesy Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Noah Diedrich is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program.

Given the latest surveys, the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative — a group consisting of the wildlife agencies of Vermont, New York and the northeast regional U.S. Fish and ...