Assessment of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) Spawning Efforts in the Lower St. Clair River, Michigan

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 383-391

  Nichols, S Jerrine ^a   Kennedy, Gregory ^a   Crawford, Eric ^a   Allen, Jeffrey ^a   French III, John ^a   Black, Glen ^a   Blouin, Marc ^a   Hickey, James ^a   Chernyák, Sergei ^a   Haas, Robert ^b   Thomas, Michael ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acipenser fulvescens; Lake sturgeon; Round gobies; Spawning reefs; St. Clair River

Indexed keywords

LAKES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION;

INVERTEBRATES;

FISHERIES;

EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL;

MICHIGAN; SAINT CLAIR RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER FULVESCENS; CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; GOBIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; NEOGOBIUS; NEOGOBIUS MELANOSTOMUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142104331     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0380-1330(03)70445-6     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Baker, J.P. 1980. The distribution, ecology and management of the lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque) in Michigan. Mich. DNR Res. Rep. 1883:1-95.
2. Charlebois, P., Marsden, J., Goettel, R., Wolfe, R., Jude, D., and Rudnika, S. 1997. The round goby, Neogobius melansostomus (Pallas), a review of European and North American literature. Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program and Illinois Natural History Survey. INHS Special Publication #20.
3. Chotkowski, M., and Marsden, E. 1999. Round goby and mottled sculpin predation on lake trout eggs and larvae: field predictions from laboratory experiments. J. Great Lakes Res. 25:26-35.
4. Goodyear, C., Edsall, T., Dempsey, D., Moss, G., and Polanski, P. 1982. Atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes. Vol. VI-St. Clair River. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. FWS/OBS-82/52.
5. Jude, D. 1997. Round gobies: Cyberfish of the third millennium. Great Lakes Res. Rev. 3(1):27-34.
6. Kempinger, J. 1988. Spawning and early life history of lake sturgeon in the Lake Winnebago system, Wisconsin. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 5:110-122.
7. Manny, B., and Kennedy, G. 2002. Known lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) spawning habitat in the channel between Lakes Huron and Erie in the Laurentian Great Lakes. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 18:486-490.
8. Marchant, S., and Shutters, M. 1996 Artificial substrates collect Gulf sturgeon eggs. N. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 16:445-447.
9. Parauka, F., Troxel, W., Chapman, F., and McBay, L. 1991. Hormone-induced ovulation and artificial spawning of Gulf of Mexico sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus desotoi). Prog. Fish. Cult. 53:113-117.
10. Russell, R., Gobas, F., and Haffner, D. 1999. Maternal transfer and in-ovo exposure of organochlorines in oviparous organisms: A model and field verification. Environ. Sci. Technol. 33:416-420.
11. Schmidt, L. 1997. Method for analysis of total PCBs and PCB congeners (full suite) and transnonachlor by gas chromatography/negative chemical ionization single ion mass spectrometry. In Lake Michigan Mass Balance (LMMB) Study Methods Compendium, Vol. II Organic and Mercury Methods. EPA-905-R-97-012b, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program Office, Chicago, IL.
12. Thomas, M., and Haas, R. 1998. Capture of lake sturgeon with setlines in the St. Clair River, Michigan. N. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 19:610-612.
13. Willford, W., Hesselberg, R., and Bergman, H. 1973. Versatile combustion-amalgamation technique for the photometric determination of mercury in fish and environmental samples. Journal of the AOAC, Vol. 56, No. 4.
14. Williams, J., Johnson, J., Hendrickson, A., Constreras-Balderas, S. 1989. Fishes of North America endangered, threatened, or of special concern: 1989. Fisheries 14:2-20.