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Commentary: Examining the three separate ‘lakes’ that make up Lake Erie

Featured, Fishing, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, New York, Ohio, Opinion, Opinion /

On Aug. 4-5, I spent about 22 hours in Dunkirk, New York, at the invitation of the Eastern Lake Erie Charter Boat Association (ELECBA) and the Chautauqua County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) to get acquainted with fishing opportunities on the “deep end” of Lake Erie.
While it takes me five hours to drive there from my home near Bowling Green, those who live in some parts of Ohio could get there in much less time. It was not my first time there, but this time I took note of the similarities and differences between this unfamiliar Eastern Basin of Lake Erie and the Western Basin.

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Cleaning smallish yellow perch is a snap

Featured, Features, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio /

Instead of throwing smaller yellow perch back on the days when schools cannot be located or convinced to bite, I routinely take home fish that are not in the ideal 8- to 10-inch range that I prefer. 
I have cleaned thousands of perch under 8 inches and have settled on 7 inches as the smallest size that produces a worthwhile fillet. For those with less practice filleting, one option for processing small perch is to simply “hog dress” them.

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Ohio State University students report on fisheries research at Stone Lab

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio /

The Ohio State University’s F. T. Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Put-in-Bay offers scholarships for highly qualified students enrolled in classes each summer through its Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program.
Stone Lab’s research coordinator, Justin Chaffin, said that for this highly competitive opportunity, 150 to more than 200 students apply each year for four REU projects conducted in the Lake Erie island area that are mentored by university faculty.

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Yellow perch bite firing up on Lake Erie’s Western Basin

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio /

After a cooler early summer, the surface water temperatures in Lake Erie’s Western Basin exceeded 80 degrees following weeks of scorching temperatures in the 90s, as recorded in Toledo.
Spiny water flea densities decline under these circumstances and to satisfy their ravenous appetites as their metabolism red lines, yellow perch switch from almost exclusively feeding on them and insect larvae to smaller prey fish.

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Avian flu hits bald eagles in Michigan and Ohio

Featured, Featured, Home Page News, Michigan, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, News, Ohio /

The bald eagle population has made a significant recovery since 1979 when only four nests remained in Ohio while chemical pollution prevented successful reproduction. 
The Ohio Division of Wildlife recently reported that after conducting aerial surveys, observers counted 964 actively nesting pairs in 87 of Ohio’s 88 counties. However, even with a population in the low thousands, they are still vulnerable to catastrophic weather events and diseases that can reverse the gains made by this slow to reproduce species.

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Lake Erie’s bottom-dwelling fish hit with low oxygen

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio /

On July 9, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a bulletin stating “Hypoxic bottom waters have been identified in the Western Basin (of Lake Erie) on both the Ohio and Canadian sides. Persistent light winds will maintain the hypoxic bottom waters.”
Normally, as opposed to waters of the Central Basin below the thermocline, the dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in the entire water column of the Western Basin remain adequate to support a wide range of aquatic organisms.

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Eurasian collared dove numbers on the rise

Featured, Home Page News, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio /

The history of feral Eurasian collared doves (ECD) in North America began when a Nassau, Bahamas, pet store was burglarized in 1974 and the distraught shopkeeper released the rest of his birds.
The doves, which lay multiple clutches of eggs per season, soon grew into a population numbering in the tens of thousands. Their first appearance in the U.S. may have been earlier but was first formally documented in Florida in 1980.

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Ohio’s Lucas County asks for dead ash tree funding

Featured, Home Page News, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio /

Emerald ash borers (EAB) are suspected to have arrived in the U.S. about 30 years ago in shipping containers that originated in China. Their presence was first officially detected in the Detroit/Windsor area in 2002 after officials inspecting dying ash trees identified the cause.
The insects crossed into Ohio’s adjacent Lucas County in 2023, making Ohio the second state with an infestation before continuing their spread that, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS), has now reached 37 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces. 

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Certain maladies riskier post-exposure to harmful algal blooms

Featured, Home Page News, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio /

At the recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) harmful algal bloom (HAB) forecast event in the Stone Laboratory classroom building on Lake Erie, Dr. David Kennedy of the University of Toledo’s Department of Medicine gave a snapshot of some of his work studying the health effects of exposure to toxic algae.
Kennedy has looked into conditions that cause or are made worse when exposed to the toxins that cyanobacteria produce.

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