The five Great Lakes hold a combined total of about 5500 million cubic miles of fresh water.
| MSU effort gets Mich. products on store shelves |
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Stuck selling to wholesalers or relying on their own small retail shops, Michigan's whitefish industry was left with little room to grow. The value of the Great Lakes annual whitefish catch dropped from $1.04 a pound in 2000 to 78 cents a pound in 2006, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. But a program to help Michigan's agricultural entrepreneurs get their products into retail stores is aiming to change that. It has stocked several Lansing-area retailers - including the eight-store L&L Food Centers chain - with Legends of the Lakes whitefish and is positioning other Michigan-made products to get onto store shelves. |