Implementation of a gap analysis: comparing historical and contemporary coregonine habitat use in the Great Lakes
Contributing Authors
Executive Summary
Our Gap Analysis team has multiple proposals in progress related to implementation of our Gap Analysis methodology for Great Lakes coregonines. We are proud to report that we have completed our objectives related to this project proposal. Our team has been working closely with the rest of the Coregonine Restoration Framework (CRF) science teams, coordinated through regular science team leadership meetings (i.e. superteam meetings), to implement our Council of Lake Committees-approved methodology to model and map historical and contemporary spawning habitats in the Great Lakes. Based on requests from the Lake Erie Committee (received 5/03/2023), we completed historical spawning habitat models and maps for Lake Erie Cisco. We then completed and compared Lake Ontario Cisco and Lake Whitefish models and maps based on requests from the Lake Ontario Committee (received 8/21/2023). In our other synergistic multi-year CRF proposals (FY22, FY24), we provide updates on our recent completion of Round Whitefish and Bloater models for Lake Ontario as well as updates on data collection to prepare models for Lake Michigan Cisco and Kiyi.