Research News

Wisconsin Sea Grant is currently funding several research projects that affect Great Lakes fish. Click on any of the links below to read the description and research update for each project.

• Causes and Impediments of Lake Trout Recovery in Lake Superior - Michael
  Hansen, College of Natural Resources, UW-Stevens Point
• Fisheries and Food Web Dynamics in Lake Superior - James Kitchell, Center for
  Limnology, UW-Madison
• Sustainability, Uncertainty and the Management of the Lake Superior Fisheries -
  Richard Bishop, Agricultural & Applied Economics, UW-Madison
• Recruitment Mechanisms in Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens): Interactions
  among Growth, Condition and Predation - Fred Binkowski, Great Lakes Water
  Institute, UW-Milwaukee
• Recruitment Decline of Yellow Perch in Green Bay, Lake Michigan: Evaluation
  of Environmental Influences and Predation - Fred Binkowski, Great Lakes Water
  Institute, UW-Milwaukee
• Early Life History of Perch - Fred Binkowski, Great Lakes Water Institute,
  UW-Milwaukee
• Assessing the Risk of Whirling Disease Becoming Established in the Great
  Lakes: Field and Laboratory Evaluation of a Novel Polymerase Chain Reaction
  Diagnostic Assay - Daniel Sutherland, Biology & Microbiology, UW-La Crosse

Major Perch Research Effort Launched
Lake Michigan's declining yellow perch fishery is the focus of a unique, multi-state research effort jointly funded by the Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant programs.

Consistency in fish consumption advisories
An informal committee is trying to create advisories that are consistent from state to state.

Zebra mussels and other nonindigenous species

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