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  NYSDEC - Fish Community Objectives for Lake Ontario - 2003 Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Lake whitefish in northeastern Lake Ontario showed signs of recovery in the early 1990's, but more recently have declined in number and condition (relative health or "plumpness" of fish).
Round whitefish can still be found in very low numbers in the northwestern portion of Lake Ontario, but they have not been documented in other portions of the Lake in the past twenty years.
Reduced nutrients in Lake Ontario, the diversion of energy flow in food webs to invasive species (primarily zebra and quagga mussels, which are not eaten by prey fish), and predation by trout and salmon, are causing stress in prey fish populations.
www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/fish/lkontfco03.html   (3051 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Outdoors : Ontario's Lake Simcoe an icefishing pageant
Lake Simcoe is part of the navigable Trent-Severn Waterway connecting Lake Huron's Georgian Bay to the northwest with upper Lake Ontario at the Bay of Quinte to the southeast.
The lake whitefish is occasionally referred to as "humpback" because the head is small in relation to the length of the body, and older specimens may develop a hump behind the head.
Size and age: The lake whitefish is commonly found at 18 inches in length and a weight of 2 to 4 pounds.
sports.espn.go.com /outdoors/fishing/columns/story?columnist=schultz_ken&page=f_col_Schultz_Ontario_L.Simcoe   (1682 words)

  
 Ontario Whitefish Fishing
Whitefish use to be one of the most popular fish to catch in the north.
Whitefish can be caught in the spring right on the surface using big trout flies.
The Whitefish are feeding on the surface due to the Mayfly hatch.
www.hiddenriverlodge.com /whitefishfishing.htm   (194 words)

  
 NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Bioenergetics of lake whitefish in the Great Lakes project
The average commercial harvests of lake whitefish from lakes Michigan and Huron in the 1990s were 34 and 42 thousand metric tons/year and accounted for nearly 50% of the total commercial catch (Schneeberger et al.
Until the measurement of lake whitefish respiration rates is repeated in the laboratory, it was recommend that the revised bioenergetics model be applied to lake whitefish (Madenjian et al.
Application of the original model to Lake Michigan lake whitefish yielded a field estimate of 0.28, implying that original formulation of the model overestimated consumption by lake whitefish in Lake Michigan by 61%.
www.glerl.noaa.gov /res/Task_rpts/2002/edypothoven09-1.html   (1950 words)

  
 NYSDEC Region 8 / Canandaigua Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The lake is bordered on the north by the city of Canandaigua, and on the south by the settlement of Woodville.
Canandaigua Lake serves as a public water supply for the communities of Canandaigua, Newark, Palmyra, Rushville and the township of Gorham.
The success of the introduced smelt and particularly, alewives, led to improved growth of adult lake and rainbow trout and set the stage for successful brown trout introduction (begun in the early 1970s).
www.dec.state.ny.us /website/reg8/lakes/canandai.html   (493 words)

  
 Lake Whitefish Description with Destination Fishing Vacations in Canada, fishing lodges, fly fishing, freshwater ...
Lake Whitefish are also known as common whitefish, Great Lakes whitefish, Sault whitefish, humpback whitefish.
In the Great Lakes, lake whitefish sometimes hybridize with ciscoes to produce a cross called mule whitefish, which grow faster and are a much brighter green than either of the parents.
Lake whitefish are the most important commercial species in Canada.
www.pvisuals.com /fishing/species/whitefish.html   (313 words)

  
 Weekly News
Lake trout tend to remain near their stocking location, and therefore reduced stocking cannot account for the magnitude of the decline in adult fish.
Lake whitefish harvest was 293,133 lbs., 50% of the quota, in 2000.
Lake trout was the fifth most commonly harvested salmonid species in the 2000 census, contributing just 9.4% of the total trout and salmon harvest.
www.great-lakes.org /6-11-01.html   (4455 words)

  
 Lake Trout/Fish of the Great Lakes by Wisconsin Sea Grant
Thanks to sea lamprey control and continuous stocking, lake trout now live seven or more years in the lake, thriving on a diet of chubs and sculpins (their traditional prey), smelt and alewives.
Lake trout are long-lived and do not reach sexual maturity until 6-8 years of age.
While the average lake trout in Lake Michigan today weighs around seven pounds, some of the larger trophy fish are three feet long and weigh as much as 25 pounds.
www.seagrant.wisc.edu /greatlakesfish/laketrout.html   (236 words)

  
 US Fish and Wildlife Service - Alpena FRO - 1995-97 Lake Huron Lake Sturgeon Report
Lake sturgeon are benthivores, feeding primarily on small benthic invertebrates such as insect larvae, especially Chironomids, nymphs of Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, and Neuroptera, crayfish, mollusks, fish eggs, fishes, nematodes, leeches, amphipods, decapods, and a few plants (Harkness and Dymond 1961).
Lake Huron is the second largest (by surface area) of the Great Lakes with a total surface area of 59,596 km2 and a total volume of 3,540 km3.
Lake sturgeon 161 and 49 were at large just over a year (16 and 14 months, respectively) prior to recapture; all other sturgeon were at large less than one year prior to recapture.
www.fws.gov /midwest/alpena/rpt-sagbay97.html   (4777 words)

  
 Temagami Vacation and Fishing on Lake Temagami and area lakes.
As mentioned there is a large selection of lakes to fish, several can be reached through a short portage from the home lake or you may also drive to many of the surrounding lakes and launch a boat.
While the lake trout and walleye fisheries have attracted the attention of anglers throughout the world, less attention has been paid to bass, pike, and whitefish fisheries.
Lake Temagami produces excellent whitefish in the early season until trout season opens in mid-February to mid-March.
www.ridgewood-cottages.com /fishing.html   (576 words)

  
 toledoblade.com -- Whitefish rally in Detroit River
The discovery of spawning whitefish in the Detroit River is evidence of the continuing recovery of a once heavily polluted and much abused waterway, federal wildlife authorities say.
"The return of the lake whitefish to the Detroit River is partially the result of 40 years of pollution prevention and control in the Detroit/Windsor metropolitan areas," stated Leon Carl, director of the USGS Great Lakes Science Center in Ann Arbor.
Whitefish eggs and larvae collected since last fall were taken to the federal Science Center and are being reared in the laboratory there.
www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060523/COLUMNIST22/605230319/-1/NEWS10   (858 words)

  
 Lake Nipigon - Ontario
Lake Nipigon, located one hour's drive east of Thunder Bay, is the largest inland lake contained entirely in Ontario, measuring roughly 100 by 70 km (62 by 43 miles).
The lake is a typical Canadian Shield lake with deep clear waters, numerous peninsulas and over 500 islands.
Lake Nipigon's brookies mainly feed on brown sculpins, tiny bait fish that flee and dart beneath boulders.
www.thefishinguide.com /nipigon.shtml   (264 words)

  
 Weekly News
Recent outbreaks of botulism in Lake Erie are linked to zebra/quagga mussels and round gobies, which transmit botulism toxin to birds and fish that eat mussels and gobies.
That was the question Department of Environmental Conservation Lake Ontario fishery officials put to people gathered for an open "Fish Community Objectives Meeting" on January 29 at the Niagara County Cooperative Extension Center in Lockport, one of four public meetings to be held in New York State along Ontario's south shoreline.
Lange added, "We have Lake Michigan as a model, where in the 1990s a decline in growth of kings and diseased fish (stressed by a lack of forage) and a crash in the alewife population caused serious problems.
www.great-lakes.org /Wkly_news/02-03-03.html   (4425 words)

  
 Great Lakes Fish & Fishing
LSCWC is an international organization dedicated to ensuring the long-term sustainable health of Lake Superior and its watershed through basin-wide communication, education, scientific study, preservation and conservation of Lake Superior and its ecosystems.
Whitefish are also a critical component of the Lake Michigan commercial fishery, and a popular sport fish in all of the Great Lakes.
Many commonly known Great Lakes fish, including chinook and coho salmon and rainbow trout, are actually non-native species that have been introduced to the lakes, either accidentally or intentionally.
www.great-lakes.net /teach/envt/fish/fish_4.html   (1272 words)

  
 Northwestern Ontario Fly-in Fishing
Whitewater Lake covers 26,039 acres and is almost 25 miles in length with the Ogoki River flowing in on the west end of the lake and out on the northeast end.
Short lake boasts large catches of walleye averaging 3-1/2 to 4 pounds, large northern pike, whitefish and sturgeon.
Auger Lake is our most northerly single cabin private lake featuring a one room cabin suitable for groups of 2 to 4 with access to an additional lake over a short portage.
www.linksnorth.com /mattice/outposts.html   (1229 words)

  
 Flocking to the Birds
Since these migrants prefer to skirt the water following the landmarks of large lakes, rivers and coastlines, the result is a mass of birds streaming southward around the big lake, piling up along the east and west shores.
Across a lake arm or bay at the end of a day’s flight, birds may flop at the tip of a point, exhausted.
Mid-autumn colors come to Lake Superior at the same time as owls wander down from the tundra and the taiga (the conifer forest of the Canadian Shield).
www.lakesuperior.com /online/234/234birds.html   (1647 words)

  
 Lake Herring/Fish of the Great Lakes by Wisconsin Sea Grant
These small, slender-bodied relatives of the lake whitefish school at depths that vary with seasonal temperatures.
In fact, as a forage fish, they were to lake trout and other aquatic predators what the rabbit has always been to land predators.
In the 20th century, these indigenous Great Lakes fish succumbed to pollution and fishing pressures -- not to mention competition from alewives and smelt.
www.seagrant.wisc.edu /greatlakesfish/lakeherring.html   (185 words)

  
 Ontario Fishing Limits
POSSESSION: If the limit says 6 in your possession then that means a total of 6 whether the fish are on your fish chain or in your freezer.
If you have 6 Smallmouth in the freezer and go back out and catch 3 for lunch, you are over the limit and can be charges $150 for each extra fish.
If you want to fish for Whitefish, you may want to buy some Wax Worms down south as they are really hard to get in the north.
www.blackbearcamp.com /ontario-fish-limits.htm   (499 words)

  
 Lake information report: Minnesota DNR
Namakan Lake is a 25,130 acre, softwater lake, located along the border between Minnesota and the Province of Ontario.
Although gill-net catches of smallmouth bass on Namakan Lake tend to be variable, they do indicate that bass abundance has increased since the early 1960's.
The 2005 gill-net catch (0.50/net) was the eighth highest on record for Namakan Lake and exceeded the median for this lake class.
www.dnr.state.mn.us /lakefind/showreport.html?downum=69069300   (641 words)

  
 Lake Whitefish On Dry Flies - Our Man In Canada #211, Fly Anglers OnLine.
Whitefish are also a great on the table, and in most jurisdictions their sheer numbers allow for a guilt-free harvest.
Whitefish are, in fact, more closely related to trout than to suckers and sport a very troutlike adipose fin.
Whitefish are not super discriminating about dry flies, but my favorite patterns lean toward old classics that include both the Gray and White Wulff, March Brown, and Mosquitoes in sizes ranging from No. 12-8.
www.flyanglersonline.com /features/canada/can211.html   (1530 words)

  
 Lake information report: Minnesota DNR
The annual budget for the Section of Fisheries is approximately $17 million, which is funded primarily by fishing license and stamp fees and by a federal excise tax on fishing and boating equipment.
The lake trout catch was low for lakes of this class, and for this lake historically.
The walleye catch was within the normal range for lakes of this class, but it was the highest yet observed in this lake.
www.dnr.state.mn.us /lakefind/showreport.html?downum=16004300   (299 words)

  
 Separation Lake Camps Ltd.  -  English River, Separation Lake, NW Ontario
When planning a trip to Canada, the location you select to fish or hunt is the key to your success.
All of our guests, plus the locals, say the west portion of the English River System, preferably Separation Lake in Ontario, is the best camp and fishery they have found.
At Separation Lake the fishing is not sporadic.
www.internetsportshow.com /searchit/separationlakecampsl.htm   (793 words)

  
 Lighthouses of Lake Ontario @US-Lighthouses.com
An example of some of the commerce that took place on the lake was that of grain and lumber with the Port of Oswego being a major port on the lake.
Although Lake Ontario is the smallest of the inland seas, it is not the shallowest.
The deepest spot of the lake is about 762 feet which surpasses Lake Erie and Lake Huron and rivals that of Lake Michigan.
www.us-lighthouses.com /ontario.php   (2078 words)

  
 Ice Fishing in Temagami and Accommodations in Northern Ontario - Ontario Cottage Rentals & Holiday Vacation Resort
Ice Fishing in Temagami northern Ontario From January to March, Temagami lakes are covered in enough ice to support the huge number of people that make ice fishing their weekend escape.
Lake Trout fishing is open from January 1st to September 30th.
Whether an Ontario resident or not, if you are between the ages of 18 and 65, a license is required to fish.
www.fishont.com /icefishing.html   (1249 words)

  
 Proposed regs for Lake Simcoe area. 12 whitefish.
Most lakes that have a limit of 25 (soon to be 12) have smaller whitefish.
Of the guy's saying that 2 whitefish are plenty......How many of you catch your two whitefish,go home,then go back the next day to get two more,then back the third day to get two more.
Our average used to be 3-5 pounds but now is around 2 or so for most lakes but still a decent fish and there are numbers but with the pressure the fish are getting they are smaller.
www.iceshanty.com /ice_fishing/index.php?topic=39263.0   (800 words)

  
 Tourism in the Great Lakes Region
Officials of the Lake Express cross-lake ferry are approaching 2007 as a "make-a-profit" year for the Lake Michigan service.
The Great Lakes offer outstanding tourism and recreation opportunities, ranging from pristine wilderness activities in national parks such as Isle Royale and Pukaskwa to waterfront beaches in major cities.
Off Lake Superior's Whitefish Point, better known to sailors as the "graveyard of the Great Lakes," it is said that more than 300 ships have been lost to Superior storms.
www.great-lakes.net /tourism   (594 words)

  
 Lake Nipissing - Ontario
Lake Nipissing is the fifth-largest lake in Ontario (excluding the great lakes) and covers 831 square km.
Located 50 km northeast of Georgian Bay, the lake runs in an east-west direction to a length of 80 km.
Lake Nipissing is also the ice-fishing capital of the north.
www.thefishinguide.com /nipissing.shtml   (432 words)

  
 Maynard Lake Lodge and Outpost - Ontario Canada Fishing Resort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
We offer the best of both lake and river fishing as Maynard Lake is fed from the north by the fast flowing English River, which moves through the lake and flows out at Maynard Falls.
The lake has depths from 1 to 130 feet with many sunken islands and underwater structures to create incredible mid-lake lunker feeding spots.
The diversity of the Lake and the ten miles of current and back eddies in the river allow you to be successful with almost any fishing technique.
www.pvisuals.com /fishing/ontario/maynard_lake_lodge/maynard_lake.html   (814 words)

  
 Smallmouth Bass Fishing in Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Although Smallmouth Bass are not the dominant species in the lake, we do have a healthy population and they can provide a full day of fishing fun if you go after them.
There is other lake nearby that also has good Smallmouth Bass if a full day of bass fishing is your pleasure.
Open Season: Whitefish Lake north to Hawk River and Manitowik Lake open all year.
www.fivemilelake.com /smallmouth-bass-fishing.htm   (112 words)

  
 Snowmobiling in Ontario
Trout Lake is sixteen miles long and half a mile wide and is located eighteen kilometers from the village of Alban.
Open year round, we are located 31 miles north-east of Elliot Lake or 50 miles north of Iron Bridge, on the east end of Mount and McElrea Lakes.
Marten River Lodge is located in Ontario's picturesque near north, 1/2 an hour north of North Bay and at the southern edge of the Temagami old growth forest.
www.linksnorth.com /snow.html   (1780 words)

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