Factors influencing fish distribution and condition within lakes and across landscapes

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources, Body conditions, Coregonus artedi, Dispersion, Distribution, All tags... Introduced species, Osmerus mordax, Q1 01341 General, Rainbow smelt, USA, Wisconsin, Fewer tags

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

Non-stationary recruitment dynamics of rainbow smelt: The influence of environmental variables and variation in size structure and length-at-maturation

Abstract (from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133014002597): Fish stock-recruitment dynamics may be difficult to elucidate because of nonstationary relationships resulting from shifting environmental conditions and fluctuations in important vital rates such as individual growth or maturation. The Great Lakes have experienced environmental stressors that may have changed population demographics and stock-recruitment relationships while causing the declines of several prey fish species, including rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax). We investigated changes in the size and maturation of rainbow smelt in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and recruitment dynamics of the Lake Michigan stock over the past...

Tags: Fish, Kalman filter, Laurentian Great Lakes, Maturation, National CASC, All tags... Nonstationarity, Rainbow smelt, Recruitment, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags

Food Web Changes over Fourteen Years Following Introduction of Rainbow Smelt into a Colorado Reservoir

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; ASFA 3: Aqua, Biomass, Cladocera, Community composition, Daphnia pulex, All tags... Ecosystem disturbance, Estimating, Fish Management, Fish Populations, Fish Stocking, Fishery management, Food Chains, Food availability, Food webs, Forage fish, Freshwater crustaceans, Growth, Introduced species, Limiting Factors, Long-term changes, Mortality, Osmerus mordax, Plankton feeders, Population density, Predation, Predator-prey interactions, Q1 01483 Species interactions: general; Q1 01605 Sport fishi, Rainbow smelt, Smelt, Species composition, Stizostedion vitreum, USA, Colorado, USA, Colorado, Horsetooth Res., USA, Colorado, Horsetooth Reservoir, Walleye, Water fleas, Water reservoirs, Zooplankton, 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

Predicting the effects of rainbow smelt on native fishes in small lakes: evidence from long-term research on two lakes

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Competition, D 04668 Fish; SW 0850 Lakes, Ecology Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts, Exotic Species, Introduced species, All tags... Lake Fisheries, Lakes, Osmerus mordax, Perch, Predation, Rainbow smelt, Smelt, USA, Wisconsin, Fewer tags

Spring distribution and abundance of larval fishes in the St. Marys River, with a note on potential effects of freighter traffic on survival of eggs and larvae

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; ASFA 3: Aqua, Anthropogenic factors, Burbot, Cisco or lake herring, Coregonus artedii, All tags... Coregonus clupeaformis, Distribution, Ecosystem disturbance, Ellpout, Fish Eggs, Fish Populations, Fish larvae, Freshwater fish, Hatching, Lake whitefish, Larvae, Lota lota, Navigation, North America, St. Marys R., North America, St. Marys R., Osmerus mordax, Perca flavescens, Population dynamics, Q1 01442 Population dynamics; Q5 01521 Mechanical and natura, Rainbow smelt, Resuspended sediments, Resuspension, Rivers, Ship routeing, Shipping, Ships, Spawning, Spring, Winter, Yellow perch, Fewer tags

Simulated dispersal of exotic rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) in a northern Wisconsin lake district and implications for management

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Habitats, D 04003 Modeling, mathematics, computer applications; D 0470, Dispersal, Ecology Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts, Exotic Species, All tags... Fish Migration, Introduced species, Lake Fisheries, Lakes, Management, Osmerus mordax, Physicochemical Properties, Rainbow smelt, Saturation, Simulation, Smelt, Spatial Distribution, Survival, USA, Wisconsin, Watersheds, Fewer tags

Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) distribution and status by HUC8

Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Tags: fish, huc8, osmerus mordax, rainbow smelt, western division of the american fisheries society, All tags... western native fishes database, Fewer tags

Understanding How Climate Change Will Impact Aquatic Food Webs in the Great Lakes

This project addressed regional climate change effects on aquatic food webs in the Great Lakes. We sought insights by examining Lake Erie as a representative system with a high level of anthropogenic impacts, strong nutrient gradients, seasonal hypoxia, and spatial overlap of cold- and cool-water fish guilds. In Lake Erie and in large embayments throughout the Great Lakes basin, this situation is a concern for fishery managers, as climate change may exacerbate hypoxia and reduce habitat volume for some species. We examined fish community composition, fine-scale distribution, prey availability, diets, and biochemical tracers for dominant fishes from study areas with medium-high nutrient levels (mesotrophic, Fairport...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, CASC, Climate Change, Completed, FY 2012, All tags... Fish, Fish, Great Lakes, Hydroacoustics, Lake Erie, Northeast, Northeast CASC, Northeast Climate Science Center, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, climate change impacts, emerald shiner, fish populations, food web dynamics, hypoxia, light stable isotope analysis, rainbow smelt, round goby, white perch, yellow perch, Fewer tags

Study of the growth and survival of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) in a turbid estuarine zone based on individual larval characteristics

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ANW, Canada, Quebec, St. Lawrence Estuary, ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; ASFA Aquacul, Environmental factors, Food availability, Growth rate, All tags... Ingestion, Mortality causes, Osmerus mordax, Parasitism, Population dynamics, Q1 01442 Population dynamics; Q1 01582 Fish culture; Q3 0158, Rainbow smelt, Recruitment, Survival, Turbidity, Fewer tags

Interactions between Young-of-the-Year Exotic Rainbow Smelt and Native Yellow Perch in a Northern Temperate Lake

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; Ecology Abst, Diaptomus, Fishery management, Freshwater fish, Growth, All tags... Interspecific relationships, Introduced species, Juveniles, Osmerus mordax, Perca flavescens, Population structure, Predation, Q1 01483 Species interactions: general; D 04668 Fish, Rainbow smelt, USA, Wisconsin, USA, Wisconsin, Vilas Cty., Crystal L., Yellow perch, 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

Great Lakes Research Vessel Catch (RVCAT) Database

The Great Lakes Research Vessel Catch (RVCAT) database is managed at the Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC). RVCAT has been used as the primary data collection tool aboard the GLSC’s research vessel operations across the Great Lakes. Content: The data set has been collected on various vessel operations on all the Great Lakes and select connecting waterways between the years 1930-2021. Data collection begins in early spring and ends in late fall. Each vessel operation was completed for a specific purpose, or target mission. Data Structure: These data are collected at the GLSC in the RVCAT Oracle database. This database has been broken down into comma separated value (csv) spreadsheets in order to facilitate greater...

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

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

Epidermal tumors of rainbow smelt with associated virus

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Cytoplasm, Epidermis, Epithelia, Histology, Lakes, All tags... Lesions, Nuclei, Osmerus mordax, Rainbow smelt, Sex differences, Skin, Tumors, Tumours, USA, New Hampshire, USA, New Hampshire, V 22111 General; Q1 01484 Species interactions: parasites an, Viral diseases, Virology & AIDS Abstracts; ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Liv, Fewer tags

Population dynamics of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) in Lakes Ontario and Erie: a modeling analysis of cannibalism effects

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Canada, Cannibalism, D 04003 Modeling, mathematics, computer applications, Ecology Abstracts, Lakes, All tags... Osmerus mordax, Population dynamics, Rainbow smelt, Fewer tags

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

The Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations data release is taken from the Research Vessel Catch (RVCAT) database curated at the Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC). RVCAT has been used as the primary data collection tool aboard the GLSC’s research vessel operations. Content: The data set has been collected on various vessel operations on all the Great Lakes and select connecting waterways between the years 1958-2018. Data collection begins in early spring and ends in late fall. Each vessel operation was completed for a specific purpose, or target mission, which are enumerated in this data set. In addition to vessel operations data, RVCAT collects trawl and gillnet catch data, sample information of fish species caught,...

Types: Citation; 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, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), 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