A virus called VHSv caused Michigan officials to cancel their muskie-stocking program this year after it showed up in Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River.

In turn, this caused Indiana Department of Natural Resources officials to test fish at Lake Webster, the state’s only source for muskie eggs.

So far, VHSv has not been detected in Lake Webster, nor anywhere else in Indiana to date.

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The fish normally would have been stocked last fall but were held over winter in a pond and fed live minnows at the Fawn River State Hatchery in the hopes of increasing their chance for survival.

Before stocking, each muskie will be tagged with a transponder that enables biologists to track the long-term growth of each fish and compare its survival with muskies stocked in the fall.

Biologists say if the larger, older muskies eventually survive better at Lake Webster, similar stockings could be done at other Indiana waters.

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