Study: Climate change making for smaller fish in Michigan

Researchers say today’s northern pike are several inches shorter than their ancestors in Michigan lakes. (Photo by Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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In addition to shorter ski seasons, worsening ticks and allergies and shrinking boreal forests, climate change has hit the Great Lakes State in another way: shrinking fish.