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News items, webinars, and science highlights related to coregonines in the Great Lakes.
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Fish of the Week: Bringin’ Bloater Back!
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.
All Too Clear: Cisco Feature
These cisco are part of a huge effort by the @USFWS, @MichiganDNR, @USGS, @ONresources, @LampreyControl, Tribal partners, and many others to bring this incredible fish back in #lakehuron. Good luck little guys! pic.twitter.com/7HFBaLhAEx— All Too Clear Film...
All Too Clear Talking Cisco
SUNY Cortland joins effort to restore native Lake Ontario fish
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...
Cisco explosion in Lake Superior may be largest on record
DULUTH — A small, native fish in Lake Superior is having a population explosion, great news for the big lake’s ecosystem but maybe a mixed blessing for anglers. The lake’s population of cisco, sometimes called lake herring, have rebounded with a massive group of young...
Anishinaabe tribes work to save Michigan whitefish
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...
Stocked ciscoes are recaptured in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron
During their Fall 2022 survey, US FWS scientists recaptured 49 large ciscoes that were stocked several years earlier at sizes ranging 3-5 inches.
Water test: One fish, two fish – where are all the whitefish?
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...
Great Lakes fish and fisheries suffer stress of warming climate
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...