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Quagga mussels blamed for whitefish declines in Great Lakes

Featured, Fishing, News, Ohio /

The bi-national Great Lakes Fisheries Commission (GLFC) was formed in 1955 to eradicate the invasive sea lamprey and to provide guidance for Great Lakes fisheries management.
According to the GLFC, lake whitefish populations have declined as much as 80% in the Great Lakes since the late 1990s. This family of fishes have historically been decimated by overfishing, pollution, dead zones, habitat degradation, and invasive fish, including sea lamprey (parasitism), rainbow smelt (predation and competition) and alewife (competition).

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Western Lake Erie’s algal bloom likely to be mild to moderate in 2025

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

On June 26, during the 14th such event, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced its annual harmful algal bloom forecast for this summer on western Lake Erie, as expressed using a severity index score. 
The meeting, which was attended by members of the media, elected officials, Stone Lab faculty, students, researchers, agency staff, and others was hosted in the Stone Laboratory classroom building lecture room on Gibraltar Island in the harbor at Ohio’s Put-in-Bay.

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Fur Harvesters Auction gives hope to some trappers

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Serge Lariviere serves as director general of the Cree Hunters and Trappers Income Security Board in Quebec and operates a fur trapping and wildlife website.
In the Fur Market Report published in The Trapper Magazine, Lariviere summarized the March 19-21 North Bay, Ontario, auction as “the very best sale we have seen in a long time!”

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Anglers warned not to fish in areas of Ohio’s Maumee River after sewage overflows leak into Lake Erie watershed

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A pair of public health agencies more than 100 miles apart had to issue public health warnings after polluted water entered the Lake Erie watershed in June.
On June 6, the Toledo/Lucas County Health Department issued a public health advisory for Swan Creek and its tributaries from Eastgate to the Maumee River due to elevated levels of E. coli. The known source is untreated human sewage coming from a leaking sewer line that caused a large sinkhole to form and crush the large pipe when it expanded and collapsed.

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Ohio’s Lake Erie yellow perch turn on in hot July

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

If the past few years are any indication, anglers eager to fill their freezers with yellow perch need to be ready to start fishing Lake Erie as soon as the calendar page turns to July.
High metabolism rates that are produced with warm lake water temperatures have the perch looking to consume as much prey as their stomachs can fit just to break even with calories burned versus consumed.

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It’s tough to beat Ohio’s Sandusky Bay for summer catfish

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According to Captain Scott Heston, who has fished Sandusky Bay for more than 45 years, “The heat of the summer, July and August, is the best time of the year to catch catfish.”
A catfish-only guide, he has operated his charter since 2016 from Hidden Hideaway Campground & Marina, formerly called Hank’s on the Bay near Port Clinton, Ohio. In my trips with him during April and May the past several years, a higher percentage of bigger catfish make up the catches. But for sheer action, the numbers of fish caught in June is tough to beat and the bite remains furious through August.

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Ohio State University’s Stone Lab will mark its 100th year this fall

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In 1895, Ohio State University (OSU) professor David S. Kellicott, who had been studying Lake Erie in the late 1800s, recommended that the university establish a field station to study biology and especially the important fishing industry.
Following his advice, OSU spent $350 to add a second story to the state fish hatchery in Sandusky that year and offered the first classes of the “Lake Laboratory” in 1900.

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Ohio conference shines spotlight on big factory farms’ impact on water quality

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At a May event, the Lake Erie Waterkeepers hosted a conference called, “Assessing Manure in Williams (Ohio) and Steuben (Indiana) Counties in the Lake Erie Watershed.”
Several presenters from Iowa to Mayland spoke of health and environmental enforcement, or lack of it, at Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in their states. Hosted by the Bryan Eagles in Ohio’s Williams County, several residents and those from adjacent Steuben County in Indiana listened as some testified about the horror they are going through with rapidly proliferating facilities surrounding their communities.

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