Please join us for the next installment of the Coregonine Science Webinar Series, Friday April 4th at 12:30 pm EST. Corbin Hilling and Robin DeBruyne (USGS) will present "Identifying and characterizing Lake Whitefish spawning habitat in Lake Erie: finding new spawning...
UWSP researcher Jared Homola describes the genetic structure of lake whitefish in Lake Michigan and its application to lake whitefish management units.
The Coregonine Steering Committee is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the 2025 fiscal year! See the attached link for guidelines and priorities for the FY25 RFP.
USGS researchers Andrew Honsey and Ralph Tingley III describe habitat use and migratory behaviors of Great Lakes cisco in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan…
Brian Weidel with the USGS Great Lakes Science Center and Dimitry Gorsky from the FWS Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office are guests on the Fish of the Week! podcast.
Recent Lakehead University graduate, Dr. Ryan Grow presents some of his dissertation work regarding acoustic sampling. He compared up-and-down-looking acoustics to traditional gillnet surveys. He estimated cisco abundances and fish movements, concluding that...
David “Bo” Bunnell, USGS researcher describes the many examples of coregonine research globally. He explains…
Carl Schreck from Oregon State University explains the challenges and successes of propagating a variety of salmonid species.
Listen to Dan Yule (USGS) talk about the comprehensive sampling strategies implored during 2022 that led to finding a historic year class of coregonids in Lake Superior. Novel genomic analyses were used to identify larval and age-0 coregonids, overcoming longstanding...
Ph. D candidate Nicole Berry of Miami University – Ohio takes us into a glimpse of her doctoral dissertation research on the potential effects of ultraviolet radiation on coregonine eggs and larvae.
Ben Rook of the Michigan DNR presents his research on historical cisco populations, highlighting the effects of overfishing, rainbow smelt, and bottom hypoxia in the bays and upper Great Lakes. Here he gives estimates of abundance during the Late 1940s and Early...
SUNY Cortland and SUNY Oswego faculty and students are collaborating with the federal Tunison Lake Ontario Biological Station in Cortland and many other agencies and organizations to save a critical piece of the Great Lakes ecosystem. This research project is made...
Kelly Hoyer, a Ph. D candidate at Central Michigan University, talks about her work on larval Lake Whitefish and Cisco. She compares the two species and their interactions with various predators and how the two fish differ....
Commercial fishers are catching fewer whitefish in parts of the Great Lakes – and the Anishinaabe people are trying to figure out why. The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians is looking into low reproduction rates for the fish. Great Lakes whitefish are pretty...
Alexander Duncan from the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation describes the historical significance of ciscoes to the SON and the relevance these fish still hold today with their current population status. https://youtu.be/qEUk7Ydnra4?si=dxw7H4CEh59Qf9Ew
Cory Brant (USGS) details the history of coregonines in the Laurentian Great Lakes, the importance they held, factors contributing to their decline, and how he has created a database to archive this data, CORHIST. https://youtu.be/Q-Xq3v0_mOQ?si=w6WqG3hIeLSJSLgH
Alex Koeberle, Cornell University Ph. D student, describes tracking ciscoes in a fingerling lake in New York. He discusses the potential size/cost benefits of stocking age-0 ciscoes, and how he tracks fish using traces of their DNA left in the water....
Jory Jonas and Ben Turschak from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources present their ongoing research about the shift being seen in ciscoes' diets. They compare the differences diet may have on body size and isotope composition....
Drs. Amanda Ackiss and Owen Gorman discuss the phenotypic and genotypical variances of the cisco species found in Lake Superior, and compare how these match up to historically categorized forms. https://youtu.be/XbP7_wI_oNs?si=aTHXGz8BArcUTZPs
Andrew Honsey (USGS) and Taylor Brown (Cornell) present on new efforts to understand coregonine population dynamics in the Great Lakes. https://youtu.be/Ype0eNm22aE?si=0aEaIoxSfuj_1qO2
Presented by Philine Feulner (EAWAG).
Presented by Trevor Krabbenhoft (University at Buffalo).
LANSING — Three men pull a fat-tired wagon filled with scientific equipment through the sand of Muskegon’s Pere Marquette beach. Dressed in layers against the late spring cold, their camo-print chest waders lend a rocking character to their gait not typical of...
The story of the Bay Port Fish Company is only one in the millions of lives, built on the shores of the Great Lakes — the largest freshwater lake system in the world. After the Williams family purchased the Bay Port Fish Company in 1978, they would take their boats...
Brian Weidel (USGS) presents on the effect of substrate on coregonine spawning success.