Kewaunee River

The Kewaunee River is a 27.9-mile-long (44.9 km)[1] river in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.[2] It begins near Frog Station in northwest Kewaunee County and flows southeast to empty into Lake Michigan at the city of Kewaunee.

On a yearly basis, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources stocks approximately 72,000 Chinook salmon, 132,000 coho salmon, 102,000 steelhead and 54,000 brown trout into the Kewaunee River, hoping to imprint them to the river so that when they mature they return to it and will be captured for egg collection.[3]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed December 19, 2011
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kewaunee River
  3. ^ Environmental Assessment: Reducing Double-Crested Cormorant Damage in Wisconsin by the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, April 20, 2009, page 26