MINNEAPOLIS – Newly published University of Minnesota research shows that Minnesotans and wolves are sharing the fishing season.
Dani Freund of the Voyageurs Wolf Project says they first recorded wolves fishing in northern Minnesota in 2017.
She says, “We think that they’re mostly fishing in shallow creeks and streams less than three feet deep often below beaver dams, which beaver dams kind of create a traffic jam for fish swimming upstream, and we’ve only seen them fish for suckers, mostly white suckers. Those have been the only species we’ve been able to identify as “wolf killed” you could say. ” She says tt doesn’t seem like they are going after the same fish that we eat as humans.
Their mouths are the main weapon to catch the fish. Freund says the wolves head to the same creeks near Voyageurs National Park each year while the fish are spawning.
