The Improbable Tale of How Howard Tanner Unleashed Salmon in the Great Lakes
Northern Michigan fishing on the Great Lakes is what it is today thanks to Howard Tanner. The improbable tale of how Howard unleashed salmon in the Great Lakes and brought about one of the biggest bio-manipulations the planet has ever seen is told here.
Howard Tanner is not a man who likes to talk about himself. But there are moments when he can’t help but beam with some degree of self-satisfaction. Like the time he was just coming ashore from fishing and a 10-year-old boy identified him simply as “the man who invented salmon.” The latter isn’t such a bad shorthand for what actually happened. Because the fish that many assume has always been here is only in the Great Lakes because Tanner said it should be.