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Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2020
Lake Erie Biological Station Annual Report
By: Kevin R. Keretz, Patrick Kocovsky, Richard Kraus, James Roberts, and Joseph Schmitt
This report presents biomass-based summaries of fish communities in the West Basin of Lake Erie derived from USGS bottom trawl surveys conducted from 2013 to 2020 during June and September. The survey design provided temporal and spatial coverage that did not exist in the interagency trawl database, and thus complemented the August ODNR-OMNRF 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 are accessible for download (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6013031fd34e162231fed756, Keretz et al. 2021). Annual survey data are added to these sources as the data become available.
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Keretz, K.R., Kocovsky, P., Kraus, R., Roberts, J., Schmitt, J., 2021, Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2020: Lake Erie Biological Station Annual Report, 12 p.
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Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2020