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Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2017
By: Kevin R. Keretz, Patrick Kocovsky, Richard T. Kraus, and Christopher Vandergoot
This report presents biomass-based summaries of fish communities in western Lake Erie derived from USGS bottom trawl surveys from 2013 to 2017 during June and September. The survey design provided temporal and spatial coverage that does not exist in the interagency trawl database, and thus complemented the August Ohio-Ontario effort to reinforce stock assessments with more robust data. Analyses herein evaluated trends in: total biomass, abundance of dominant predator and forage species, non-native species composition, biodiversity and community structure. Data from this effort can be explored interactively online (https://lebs.shinyapps.io/western-basin/), and future analyses will be supported by public data and metadata records available on ScienceBase (https://doi.org/10.5066/F7KK9B1R).
Suggested Citation
Keretz, K.R., Kocovsky, P., Kraus, R.T., and Vandergoot, C., 2018, Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2017, 11 p.
Study Area
Publication type
Report
Publication Subtype
Other Government Series
Title
Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2017
Year Published
2018
Language
English
Publisher
Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Contributing office(s)
Great Lakes Science Center
Description
11 p.
Larger Work Type
Report
Larger Work Subtype
Other Government Series
Larger Work Title
Compiled reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission of the annual bottom trawl and acoustics surveys, 2017