{"id":69712,"date":"2019-02-01T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/?p=69712"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:28:58","slug":"lake-watch-deadly-virus-threatens-bass-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/lake-watch-deadly-virus-threatens-bass-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake watch: Deadly virus threatens bass populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly fish virus previously affecting largemouth bass in southern Michigan waters has spread to smallmouth bass in northern Lower Peninsula inland lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Department of Natural Resources identified largemouth bass virus in three counties bordering Lake Huron. A fish kill last fall in Iosco County\u2019s Cedar Lake prompted studies of fish kill in Alpena County\u2019s Beaver Lake and Montmorency\u2019s Avalon Lake. The virus was discovered in smallmouth bass in both lakes. Downstate outbreaks of the disease in the early 2000s killed 10 to 20 percent of the adult largemouth bass exposed to the pathogen. The potential spread to northwest Michigan waters raises DNR and angler concerns about local bass fisheries.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.record-eagle.com\/news\/local_news\/lake-watch-deadly-virus-threatens-bass-populations\/article_395c0889-7f9d-5a28-8416-8661dbd5b32b.html\">Lake watch: Deadly virus threatens bass populations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly fish virus previously affecting largemouth bass in southern Michigan waters has spread to smallmouth bass in northern Lower Peninsula inland lakes. Michigan Department of Natural Resources identified largemouth bass virus in three counties bordering Lake Huron. A fish kill last fall in Iosco County\u2019s Cedar Lake prompted studies of fish kill in Alpena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69714,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69712\/revisions\/69714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}