Fish Habitat Enhancement Plan

[LongLine]

This should get interesting.  Cleaning up places in the lake and in streams so eggs have "safe" places to hatch & survive.

 

https://dec.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/greatlakesfishhabitatplan.pdf
 

[schreckstoff]

Thanks for posting Longline, happy to see this published. We have a bunch of papers that will be out soon demonstrating just how degraded the lake spawning habitat is for some species and how some of the experimental rehabilitations have worked.
 

 

Edited Sunday at 12:03 PM by schreckstoff

[LongLine]

I'm really curious how they clean up the weeds off the rocks in the creeks.  Maybe a high power water blaster??  I'd love to see them dump truckloads of small gravel off the old Russel Station in about 60-70 FOW, but that's a real pipe dream.  The east side of the Genny is all mud & silt from river runoff and the dredge dumping ground. 

 

There aren't many underwater pics of the bottom that I can find.  If anyone has some, please post.  

[schreckstoff]

Substrate & habitat classification of probable LT spawning areas in Lake Ontario, including video:

 

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6793732cd34e88f5864c50af

 

videos can be big files

 

 

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[LongLine]

Couldn't complete the downloads of videos on sciencebase.  "Big files" is an understatement. Did watch the U-tubes.  Very interesting.  I hope it's successful. 

 

Am wondering about Gobys. I haven't seen any recent data on Goby populations. I did see that USFWS put out an article a while back that they love LT eggs and are a detriment to successful recruitment of LTs.  i.e. that they trapped a couple thousand on a spawning reef.  I understand that LTs won't protect nests like Smallmouths do. (maybe I'm wrong there) Are there any plans to trap them at cleaned sites?