Webinar Video

Scott Koenigbauer describes the last ten years of cisco stocking efforts in Lake Huron. He outlines the history of cisco declines, the milestones achieved by the stocking program, the associated uncertainties, and the path moving forward....

Taylor Skiles (Michigan DNR), Matt Herbert (The Nature Conservancy), and Dave Clapp (The Nature Conservancy) presented their work on “Northern Lake Michigan Reef Evaluation and Prioritization.” The project mapped several Lake Michigan reefs and conducted standardized...

Dr. Clare Venney (University of Alberta) provides an overview of how epigenomic mechanisms such as DNA methylation affect gene expression and phenotype in response to environmental changes. She details how she has used epigenomic tools to study salmonids, capelin,...

Alex Gatch (USGS) presents his research on efforts to stocking bloater in Lake Ontario. He covers testing factors including temperature, handling, light, and exhaustion that contribute to overall stress and mortality during stocking events.

Bill Carter (USFWS) describes his master’s work on the broad whitefish, the second largest coregonine species.

Randy Brown (USFWS – retired) presents on 30 years worth of research and experience working with the Yukon River Inconnu, the world’s largest coregonine.

Kristen Behrens (University of Michigan) delivers hot off the press data about genomics markers that could possibly determine sex in ciscoes.

Dr. Dan Isermann (University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point) presents on his research on Understanding the behavior and importance of lake whitefish spawning in tributaries to southern Green Bay.

Taylor Brown (Cornell), provides an in depth look at the variables potentially driving recruitment dynamics of the cisco and lake whitefish within…

Todd Hayden (Michigan State University) and Joseph Schmitt (USGS) discussing movement and habitat use of cisco in Lakes Huron and Erie.

Katelyn King (MDNR) presents her work with the Gap Analysis science team identifying historical and contemporary cisco spawning habitat in Lakes Erie and Ontario. Laura Lee (USFWS) discusses newly created predictive models that give insight into the population...

Corbin Hilling and Robin DeBruyne of USGS present their findings of new spawning locations of lake whitefish in Lake Erie. They also describe over-wintering conditions on a known spawning reef such as ice effects and hydrodynamics.

Cory Brant, Jim McKenna, Jon Doubek, Nikki Berry, and Steve Pothoven explain the importance of nursery habitat to lake whitefish.

Trevor Pitcher from the University of Windsor explains his research regarding the challenges of producing fish in hatcheries, from gamete quality to transport stress. He teaches us the history and future of fish hatcheries and reintroduction programs.

Kyle Stratton of OMNR and Alex Gatch of USGS give subsequent presentations about behaviors of ciscoes in Lakes Superior and Ontario. They will talk about challenges with these fish, tagging in the winter, and what the telemetry data tells us.

UWSP researcher Jared Homola describes the genetic structure of lake whitefish in Lake Michigan and its application to lake whitefish management units.

Mike Lowe of USGS presents his findings of what reefs contribute to the current lake whitefish fishery around Buffalo Reef, Lake Superior. By looking at differences between historical spawning sites and those used today, he creates comparisons of habitat quality and questions prey availability.

Todd Hayden (Michigan State University) describes the seasonal movements and habitat use of the shorthead cisco in the Les Cheneaux Islands of Lake Huron. Joseph Schmitt (USGS) presents on behalf of Richard Kraus on the movement, habitat use, and survival of hatchery-reared ciscoes in Lake Erie.

USGS researchers Andrew Honsey and Ralph Tingley III describe habitat use and migratory behaviors of Great Lakes cisco in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan…

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...