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  <dc:contributor>Charles R. Bronte</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>James H. Selgeby</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Gary L. Curtis</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1993</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We developed a simple linear regression model to forecast year-class contributions of lake whitefish&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Coregonus clupeaformis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to the commercial harvest in the Apostle Islands region of Lake Superior. We indexed year-class strength from catches of yearling fish in bottom trawl samples. Recruitment of each year-class was measured by its relative abundance in the fishery at age 6. The relation between recruitment to the commercial fishery and year-class strength indices was positive and significant (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;r&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;= 0.67,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;P&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt; 0.01). The model produced reliable estimates of recruitment to the fishery within the range of the regression. Projected recruitment of the 1983&amp;ndash;1987 year-classes to the fishery in 1989-1993 should be sufficient to sustain current levels of harvest through 1993.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1577/1548-8675(1993)013&lt;0349:FCOLWY&gt;2.3.CO;2</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Taylor &amp; Francis</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Forecasting contributions of lake whitefish year-classes to a Lake Superior commercial fishery from estimates of yearling abundance</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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