Aquatic Native Species
Aquatic Native Species
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Aquatic Native Species and Habitat Restoration: Cisco Spawning Habitat Assessment
Cisco (formerly known as Lake Herring) Coregonus artedi are native shallow water coregonines which were formerly very abundant in the Great Lakes and provided large commercial fisheries and healthy prey to native piscivores. In most areas outside of Lake Superior, cisco abundance is greatly reduced and in Lakes Ontario and Erie they are uncommon to rare.
Aquatic Native Species and Habitat Restoration: Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Restoration and Functional Assessment Tools
USGS scientists developed the Restoration Assessment decision support tool to help resource managers prioritize where to invest in restoration activities, and the Functional Assessment analysis tool which will help managers quantify changes in ecosystem services associated with restoration actions.
Carbon Dioxide for General Aquatic Invasive Species Control
Invasive Carp Control: Carbon Dioxide Carbon dioxide (CO2) is being evaluated as a new fishery chemical for general aquatic invasive species control. Most research has focused on its effectiveness as a behavioral deterrent and lethal control or invasive carps. However, because CO2 is generally non-selective, there is potential for this new control chemical to be applied across a wide range of...
Aquatic Native Species and Habitat Restoration: Coregonine Restoration
Human activities have greatly impacted fish populations in the Great Lakes, including various Coregonus species such as deepwater cisco (e.g. bloater ( Coregonus hoyi ) and lake herring ( Coregonus. artedi ). The USGS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Department of State (DOS) and Great Lakes Fishery Commision (GLFC) are leading a...
Aquatic Native Species and Habitat Restoration: Post-construction Evaluation of the Detroit River, Fort Wayne Fish Spawning Reef
In coordination with the 2019 Lake Erie Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) assessment activities, scientists from the USGS, Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MI DNR), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF), and Michigan Sea Grant, partnered in several fish spawning habitat restoration projects in the Detroit...
Aquatic Native Species and Habitat Restoration: Restoring native freshwater fish populations
USGS is working to help restore Atlantic salmon, bloater and cisco populations in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River as part of the Coregonid Restoration effort. These three key species of the native Lake Ontario fish community are extirpated (Atlantic salmon and bloater) or are at low levels of former abundance (cisco).