Lake Michigan, USA: Historic alewife spawning locations

Species occurrence data were obtained from the Atlas of Spawning and Nursery Areas of Great Lakes Fishes (Goodyear et al. 1982). The atlas contains information on all of the commercially and recreationally important species that use the tributaries, littoral and open-water areas of the Great Lakes as spawning and nursery habitats. Close to 9500 geo-referenced data records (occurrences of fish species) were imported into ArcView GIS. The 139 fish taxa reported in the Atlas had to be grouped into fewer broad categories to produce meaningful distribution maps. We chose three functional classification schemes. Jude and Pappas (1992) used Correspondence Analysis to partition fish species associated with the open...

Tags: alewife, fish, great lakes, spawn, species

Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations 1958-2018: Gillnet. (ver. 3.0, April 2019)

All gillnet data represented here expand upon vessel operations (OP table) data, all of which are collected by the United States Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center and its partners. The Gillnet Tables contain data collected from the research vessel deploying various gear used for gillnet data collection. The database uses sample_type to indicate the gear deployed. The tables relating to Gillnet are: GN_Annulus.csv, GN_Catch.csv, GN_Effort.csv, GN_Fish.csv, GN_L, GN_LF.csv, GN_OP.csv, GN_Prey.csv, GN_Stomach.csv, LMMB_Fish_Prey.csv, and LMMB_Invert_Prey.csv Data Quality: Note that the following data release is a snapshot of the database at the time of release. Some data quality checks are still being...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Bathythermograph, Benthos, Bloater, Cisco, All tags... Deepwater, Deepwater Sculpin, Detroit River, Emerald Shiner, Gillnet, Habitat, Hydroacoustic, Ichthyoplankton, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Superior, Lake Trout, Lake Trout Population Dynamics, Laurentian Great Lakes, Mensuration, Mysis, Prey fish, Prey fish population dynamics, Rainbow Smelt, Round Goby, Saint Clair River, Sea Lamprey, Slimy Sculpin, Spoonhead Sculpin, Trawl, Walleye, White Perch, Yellow Perch, Zebra Mussel, Zooplankton, acoustics, age estimation methods, age structure, biogeography, biological sampling, biomass, biota, environment, fall forage fish, field sampling, fishery management, food web, freshwater fishes, geospatial datasets, gillnets, inlandWaters, invasive species, population dynamics, surface water temperature, time series datasets, transect sampling, trawl nets, trawling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations 1958-2018: Mensuration. (ver. 3.0, April 2019)

All mensuration data represented here expand upon vessel operations (OP table) data, all of which are collected by the United States Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center and its partners. The Mensuration Tables contain data collected from the research vessel deploying various gear used for mensuration data collection. The database uses sample_type to indicate the gear deployed. The tables relating to Mensuration are: Mensuration.csv, MS_head_rope_depth.csv, MS_FOOT_ROPE_DEPTH, MS_Primary.csv, MS_Temperature.csv, and MS_Wingspread.csv Data Quality: Note that the following data release is a snapshot of the database at the time of release. Some data quality checks are still being undertaken after the time...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Bathythermograph, Benthos, Bloater, Cisco, All tags... Deepwater, Deepwater Sculpin, Detroit River, Emerald Shiner, Gillnet, Habitat, Hydroacoustic, Ichthyoplankton, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Superior, Lake Trout, Lake Trout Population Dynamics, Laurentian Great Lakes, Mensuration, Mysis, Prey fish, Prey fish population dynamics, Rainbow Smelt, Round Goby, Saint Clair River, Sea Lamprey, Slimy Sculpin, Spoonhead Sculpin, Trawl, Walleye, White Perch, Yellow Perch, Zebra Mussel, Zooplankton, acoustics, age estimation methods, age structure, biogeography, biological sampling, biomass, biota, environment, fall forage fish, field sampling, fishery management, food web, freshwater fishes, geospatial datasets, gillnets, inlandWaters, invasive species, population dynamics, surface water temperature, time series datasets, transect sampling, trawl nets, trawling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Early Life History Dynamics of a Stocked Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) Population and Assessment of Strategies for Improving Stocking Success in Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; ASFA 3: Aqua, Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Animal nutrition, Body size, All tags... Diets, Feeding behaviour, Fishery management, Forage fish, Growth curves, Lake fisheries, Life history, Morone saxatilis, Population dynamics, Q1 01442 Population dynamics; Q1 01582 Fish culture; Q1 0160, Rockfish, Stocking (organisms), Striped bass, Survival, USA, Virginia, Smith Mountain L., Fewer tags

Shifts in Depth Distributions of Alewives, Rainbow Smelt, and Age-2 Lake Trout in Southern Lake Ontario following Establishment of Dreissenids

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Atlantic salmon, Canada, Canada, Ontario L., All tags... Colonization, D 04668 Fish; Q1 01483 Species interactions: general; Q1 012, Dreissena, Ecological distribution, Ecology Abstracts; ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Reso, Freshwater fish, Freshwater molluscs, Introduced species, Lake trout, Mysis relicta, Osmerus mordax, Population establishment, Population levels, Rainbow smelt, Salmo salar, Salvelinus namaycush, Vertical distribution, Fewer tags

Effect of density and temperature on food consumption rates of emerald shiners (Notropis atherinoides)

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: North America, Erie L., Notropis atherinoides, SW 0850 Lakes; Q1 01425 Nutrition and feeding habits, Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Liv, alewife, All tags... density, feeding rates, food chains, food consumption, food-web models, freshwater fish, population density, population dynamics, shiner, smelt, temperature effects, walleye, Fewer tags

Processes Contributing to Variability in Regional Patterns of Juvenile River Herring Abundance across Small Coastal Systems

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; Oceanic Abst, Alewife, Alosa aestivalis, Alosa pseudoharengus, Anadromous species, All tags... Biogeography, Blueback herring, Environmental effects, Freshwater fish, Geographical distribution, Juveniles, Population levels, Population number, Q1 01342 Geographical distribution; O 1050 Vertebrates, Uroc, River discharge, Rivers, USA, Massachusetts, Water transparency, pH effects, Fewer tags

Total thiamine concentrations in lake trout Salvelinus namaycush eggs in lakes Huron and Michigan, 1996-2018

Monitoring of vitamin B1 (thiamine) in the eggs of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) collected from lakes Huron and Michigan has been conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey since the mid-1990’s. The results of this monitoring effort have been used by natural resource management agencies and native American tribes within the Great Lakes basin to evaluate the reproductive health of lake trout. The data in this release are the thiamine concentrations measured in lake trout collected from 1996-2018. Results are reported as total thiamine (nmol/g-egg), collection site, lake, year collected, and reference to the analysis methods.

Categories: Data; Tags: Canada, EMS, Early Mortality Syndrome, Fish, Fish Spawning and Larval Aggregation, All tags... Great Lakes, Illinois, Indiana, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Laurentian Great Lakes, Michigan, Ontario, Salvelinus namaycush, TDC, Thiamine Deficiency Complex, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Vitamin B1, Wildlife Biology, Wisconsin, alewife, aquatic biology, aquatic ecosystems, biota, commercial fishery resources, ecosystem monitoring, environmental assessment, fish, fisheries biology, fishery management, freshwater ecosystems, hazards, health and disease, inland fishery resources, lake trout, long-term ecological monitoring, population and community ecology, recreational fishery resources, risk assessment, thiamine, thiamine deficiency, vitamin deficiency, wildlife disease, Fewer tags

Evidence for predation by young-of-the-year alewife and bloater chub on Bythotrephes cederstroemi in Lake Michigan

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; Water Resour, Alosa pseudoharengus, Alosa pseudoharengus, Bythotrephes cederstroemi, Bythotrephes cederstroemi, All tags... Coregonus hoyi, Coregonus hoyi, North America, Great Lakes, North America, Great Lakes, Q1 01483 Species interactions: general; SW 0850 Lakes; D 046, USA, Michigan L., alewife, chubs, competition, food webs, introduced species, natural populations, predation, prey selection, stomach content, Fewer tags

Trophic cascade changes in Otsego Lake, New York, following the introduction of the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alewife, Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Chlorophyll A, Daphnia, All tags... Ecological Effects, Environmental impact, Fish Food Organisms, Fish culture, Food webs, Forage fish, Lake Fisheries, Phytoplankton, Predation, SW 0850 Lakes; Q1 01582 Fish culture; Q3 01582 Fish culture, Stocking (organisms), Trophic Level, Trophic structure, USA, New York, Otsego L., USA, New York, Otsego L., Water Quality, Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Liv, Fewer tags

Importance of Lake Ontario Embayments and Nearshore Habitats as Nurseries for Larval Fishes with Emphasis on Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alewife, Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Bays, Common sunfishes, All tags... Data Collections, Dreissenidae, Ecological distribution, Fish Populations, Fish larvae, Habitat, Habitats, Ichthyoplankton surveys, Introduced species, Lakes, Larvae, Lepomis, Nursery grounds, Perca flavescens, Phosphorus, Population Density, Population Dynamics, SW 0850 Lakes; Q1 01463 Habitat community studies; Q5 01521 , Seasonal Variations, Species Composition, USA, New York, Ontario L., USA, New York, Ontario L., Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Liv, Yellow perch, Fewer tags

Effect of alewife predation on survival of larval yellow perch in an embayment of Lake Ontario

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alosa pseudoharengus, D 04668 Fish; SW 0850 Lakes, Ecology Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts, Perca flavescens, USA, New York, All tags... alewife, lakes, mortality, perch, predation, survival, Fewer tags

Feeding chronology and habits of Alosa spp. (Clupeidae) juveniles from the lower Hudson River estuary, New York

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alewife, Alosa, D 04668 Fish; Y 25495 Fish; SW 0890 Estuaries, Diets, Ecology Abstracts; Animal Behavior Abstracts; Water Resource, All tags... Estuaries, Fish Food, Herring, Shad, USA, New York, chronology, food selection, juveniles, niche overlap, Fewer tags

Piscivores, predation, and PCBs in Lake Ontario's pelagic food web

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alewife, Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Atlantic salmon, Burbot, All tags... Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, Cottus cognatus, D 04003 Modeling, mathematics, computer applications; D 0480, Ecology Abstracts; Toxicology Abstracts; ASFA 3: Aquatic Pol, Ellpout, Fish, Lake trout, Lota lota, North America, Great Lakes, North America, Great Lakes, North America, Great Lakes, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Osmerus mordax, PCB, PCB compounds, Petromyzon marinus, Pisces, Pisces, Pollution dispersion, Rainbow smelt, Rainbow trout, Salmo salar, Salmo trutta, Salmon, Salvelinus namaycush, Sea lamprey, Slimy sculpin, Water Pollution, food webs, food webs, lakes, models, polychlorinated biphenyls, predation, predator-prey interactions, Fewer tags

Lake Ontario April Prey Fish Bottom Trawl Survey, 1997-2021

This data release includes Lake Ontario prey fish data including species captured, relative abundance, spatial distribution, size structure, and age data from the April or spring prey fish bottom trawl survey, 1997 and 2021. Data from 1997 - 2015 are from U.S. waters of Lake Ontario while data from 2016 - 2021 include both U.S. and Canadian waters of Lake Ontario. Details about the vessel and gear descriptions, sampling protocols, and catch processing protocols can be found in the Process sections of this metadata. Portions of this data release follows the data model of the USGS Great Lakes Science Center Research Vessel Catalog (RVCAT). The trawl data included in this data release are a subset of the larger RVCAT...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Aquatic Biology, Cisco, Ecology, Lake Ontario, All tags... Lake Ontario, Limnology, New York, Ontario, Rainbow Smelt, Three-spined stickleback, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, bottom trawl, field sampling, fish, freshwater ecosystems, inlandWaters, population dynamics, prey fish, Fewer tags

Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations 1958-2018: OP. (ver. 3.0, April 2019)

These data have been collected on various vessel operations on the Great Lakes and select connecting waterways. This vessel operations data set is part of and connected to a larger database of Great Lakes research that includes trawl and gillnet catch data, sample information of fish species caught, as well as effort applied, operation conditions, and location details. The larger database also contains data on hydroacoustics, ichthyoplankton, zooplankton, zebra mussel, and benthos samples collected. Multiple operations were conducted on all Great Lakes each year (1958-2016) beginning in early spring and ending in late fall. Each vessel operation was completed for a specific purpose, or target mission, which are...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Bathythermograph, Benthos, Bloater, Cisco, All tags... Deepwater, Deepwater Sculpin, Detroit River, Emerald Shiner, Gillnet, Habitat, Hydroacoustic, Ichthyoplankton, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Superior, Lake Trout, Lake Trout Population Dynamics, Laurentian Great Lakes, Mensuration, Mysis, Prey fish, Prey fish population dynamics, Rainbow Smelt, Round Goby, Saint Clair River, Sea Lamprey, Slimy Sculpin, Spoonhead Sculpin, Trawl, Walleye, White Perch, Yellow Perch, Zebra Mussel, Zooplankton, acoustics, age estimation methods, age structure, biogeography, biological sampling, biomass, biota, environment, fall forage fish, field sampling, fishery management, food web, freshwater fishes, geospatial datasets, gillnets, inlandWaters, invasive species, population dynamics, surface water temperature, time series datasets, transect sampling, trawl nets, trawling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Anomalous migrations of anadromous herrings revealed with natural chemical tracers

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ANW, USA, New York, Hudson R., Alewife, Alosa aestivalis, Alosa pseudoharengus, Alosa sapidissima, All tags... American shad, Anadromous species, Blueback herring, Chemotaxis, D 04668 Fish; Y 25655 Fish; O 1050 Vertebrates, Urochordates, Ecology Abstracts; Animal Behavior Abstracts; Oceanic Abstra, Life history, Migration, Olfaction, Otoliths, Spawning migrations, USA, New York, Fewer tags

Chinook salmon epizootics in Lake Michigan: Possible contributing factors and management implications

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; Water Resour, Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Biological stress, Chinook salmon, All tags... Epidemiology, Epizootics, Fish Management, Fish diseases, Food availability, Kidney diseases, Lake fisheries, Mortality causes, North America, Michigan L., Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Q1 01484 Species interactions: parasites and diseases; SW 08, Salmon, USA, Michigan L., bacterial kidney disease, Fewer tags

Indirect Estimate of Gill Net Mesh Size Selectivity for Landlocked Alewives

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Body size, D 04001 Methodology - general, Ecology Abstracts, All tags... Lakes, Nets, Sampling, USA, Connecticut, Fewer tags

Evidence of natural reproduction of lake trout in western Lake Huron

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: North America, Huron L., SW 0850 Lakes; D 04668 Fish; Q1 01604 Stock assessment and m, Salvelinus namaycush, USA, Michigan, USA, Michigan, Huron L., Thunder Bay, All tags... Water Resources Abstracts; Ecology Abstracts; ASFA 1: Biolog, alewife, fish populations, fish stocking, lamprey, mortality, population dynamics, predation, reproduction, sexual reproduction, spawning, stocking (organisms), trawling, trout, Fewer tags