Coregonines historically spawned in tributaries throughout the Great Lakes basin (Goodyear et al. 1982), but tributary spawning declined due to overfishing, habitat degradation, and other factors (Honsey et al. 2024). Recent surveys have found river spawning runs of...
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eDNA Monitoring
Development of eDNA markers for Coregonids in the Great Lakes
Detection of Lake Erie Cisco using eDNA – Applications to Cisco Restoration in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Understanding extant diversity in compromised and healthy ecosystems is important to maintaining or restoring species diversity. Cisco (Coregonus artedi) and other coregonines were once found in all five Great Lakes and were central to Great Lakes food webs. The loss...