Study shows walleye stocks spawning in Lake Erie’s Central Basin

In July, a paper published in the Journal of Freshwater Ecology spoke of an Ohio Division of Wildlife (DOW) research project entitled “Evidence of nearshore in-lake spawning walleye in the Central Basin of Lake Erie.”
DOW’s Fairport Harbor Fisheries Research Station biologists Carey T. Knight, Ann Marie Gorman, and Graham F. Montague documented that spawning and successful reproduction is occurring in the Central Basin of Lake Erie near Fairport Harbor. Lake Erie walleyes are known to have genetically distinct stocks that often return to the same locations to spawn annually, known as site fidelity.

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