Describing historical habitat use of a native fish-Cisco (Coregonus artedi)-in Lake Michigan between 1930 and 1932.

ABSTRACT: With the global-scale loss of biodiversity, current restoration programs have been often required as part of conservation plans for species richness and ecosystem integrity. The restoration of pelagic-oriented cisco (Coregonus artedi) has been an interest of Lake Michigan managers because it may increase the diversity and resilience of the fish assemblages and conserve the integrity of the ecosystems in a changing environment. To inform restoration, we described historical habitat use of cisco by analyzing a unique fishery-independent dataset collected in 1930-1932 by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries' first research vessel Fulmar and a commercial catch dataset reported by the State of Michigan in the same period, both based on gear fished on the bottom. Our results confirmed that the two major

SUBMITTER: Kao YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7141674 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature