Examination of factors contributing to the decline of the yellow perch population and fishery in Les Cheneaux Islands, Lake Huron, with emphasis on the role of double-crested cormorants

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 506-523

  Fielder, David G ^a  

^a MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cormorants; Les Cheneaux Islands; Mortality rate; Population dynamics; Predation; Yellow perch

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

CORMORANTS; LES CHENEAUX ISLANDS; MORTALITY RATE; PREDATION; YELLOW PERCH;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ABUNDANCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FISH; FISHERY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEABIRD;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE HURON; NORTH AMERICA;

PERCA; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS;

EID: 53649093237     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3394/0380-1330(2008)34[506:EOFCTT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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