Robin L DeBruyne

Larval and Young of Year Walleye Diets in Western Lake Erie during 2014 and 2019

Lake Erie walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) recruitment fluctuates annually and depends partially on their diet and growth during their first year of life. To determine how age-0 walleye have responded to changes in prey species and abundance, larval and young of year walleye were collected from western Lake Erie in 2019 and 2014. Larval and young of year fish stomachs were extracted and dissected, with prey contents removed for later identification. All prey contents were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level using a dissecting microscope and counted, with up to 20 prey items from each taxa per fish measured (0.01 mm) using a digital computer image analysis system. Zooplankton prey items were identified...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Aquatic invasive species, Diets, Ecology, Fish, All tags... Great Lakes, Lake Erie, Larval fish, Limnology, Sander vitreus, Stizostedion vitreum, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Walleye, Western Lake Erie, Young of year, aquatic biology, biota, ecology, environment, fish, food consumption, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, zooplankton, Fewer tags

Larval Fish Abundance, Identification, and Auxiliary Data from the Great Lakes and Their Connecting Channels, 2006-2022

This dataset contains data collected on various vessel operations on the Great Lakes and their connecting channels, primarily the St. Clair River, St. Marys River, Lake St. Clair, Detroit River, and Lake Erie, although other locations have been sampled and included in this dataset. This dataset contains the field variables, environmental conditions, larval catches (numbers), larval fish identifications, larval fish measurements, and associated auxiliary information with the sampling locations.

Categories: Data; Tags: Acipenser fulvescens, Aquatic Biology, Coregonus clupeaformis, Detroit River, Ecology, All tags... Great Lakes connecting waters, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Saint Clair, Perca flavescens, Saint Clair River, Saint Marys River, Sander vitreus, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, aquatic biology, aquatic ecosystems, biota, burbot, community ecology, environment, fish, fish larvae, habitats, inlandWaters, lake sturgeon, lake whitefish, lampreys, phenology, walleye, yellow perch, Fewer tags

Pre-restoration biological and physical assessment of the lower Rouge River, MI, 2018

Data are from biological and physical environmental assessments conducted during 2018 in the lower Rouge River, MI. Sites were located upstream, downstream, and within the concrete channel section of the lower Rouge River. Water quality parameters, riparian zone characteristics, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, and river channel characteristics (water depth, flow, velocity) were assessed during 2018 from June-October. Previously established standardized sampling methods were used during all assessments.

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Benthos, Ecology, Michigan, River Rouge, All tags... Rouge River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, acoustic doppler current profiling, amphibians, biota, environment, environmental assessment, fish, macrophytes, reptiles, Fewer tags

Microsatellite genotypes for Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) Eggs and Larvae from Constructed Reefs in the St. Clair-Detroit River System (2015-2016)

This dataset contains the physical collection information (e.g., sample location, date, gear type) and microsatellite DNA genotype of egg and larval Lake Sturgeon collected in the St. Clair and Detroit rivers in 2015 and 2016. Individuals were genotyped for 18 microsatellite loci (13 disomic and 5 polysomic). Alleles (base pair sizes) were recorded as presence absence scores (1:present, 2:absent, 0:missing data) for all previously observed alleles. Thus individual genotypes were recorded as pseudo diploid dominant phenotypes resulting in individual vectors of length n=205 for each genotyped egg or larval individual.

Categories: Data; Tags: Acipenser, Acipenser fulvescens, Acipenseridae, Anthropogenic, Anthropogenic Rock, All tags... Anthropogenic Rock Reef Substrate, Anthropogenic Rock Rubble, Anthropogenic Substrate, Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Setting, Artificial reef, Assessments, Biological Occurrence, Data Content Subjects, Data Content Types, Detroit, Detroit River, Dredge Deposit, Dredge Disturbance, Dredged/Excavated Channel, Fishes, Fishing from Shore, Fishing with Benthic Mobile Gear, Genetics, Grassy Island, Great Lakes, Habitat, Harvesting Living Resources, Huron, Lacustrine, Lake Saint Clair, Lake St. Clair, Living Resources, Macomb, Michigan, Middle Channel Saint Clair River, Motorized Boating, North Channel Saint Clair River, Pelagic Fishing, Port Huron, Recreational Nonextractive /Cultural Use, Sailing, Saint Clair, Saint Clair River, Shipping, Shore Use, St. Clair, St. Clair-Detroit, Substrate, Transportation, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wayne, Western Lake Erie, animals, anthropogenic agents of coastal change, aquatic ecosystems, biological features, biological laboratory methods, biological observations, biological resources, biology, biota, biota, canal, capturing (animals), channels, chordates, conservation, construction, cultural resources, data processing, datasets, discipline, dredge spoils disposal, dredging operations, ecological change, ecosystem monitoring, ecosystem restoration, ecosystems, endemic species, environment, environmental assessment, eukaryotes, feature type, field inventory and monitoring, field methods, field observation, field sampling, fish, fish eggs, fish larvae, fisheries, fishery resources, food resources, freshwater ecosystems, genetic diversity, genetics, genotype, habitats, hot topics, hydrographic features, ichthyology, ichthyoplankton, inland fishery resources, inlandWaters, laboratory methods, landform, life sciences, management methods, methods, native species, natural resources, nekton and plankton, organism groupings (non-taxonomic), organisms, physiographic features, population and community ecology, population dynamics, product types, ray-finned fish ["bony fish"], recreational fishery resources, reef, reefs, regions, research method, resource management, resources, river, river basin development, river systems, rivers, sciences, shipping channels, species conservation, streams, sturgeon, topics, transportation resources, trapping, vertebrates, water resources, wetland destruction, zoology, Fewer tags

Fish eggs collected in the St. Clair, Detroit, and St. Marys rivers, 2005-2022

A long-term, multiseason, fish egg sampling program is conducted annually on the Detroit, Saint Clair, and Saint Marys rivers to identify where productive fish spawning habitat currently exists and evaluate habitat restoration projects. Egg mats were placed on the river bottom during the spring and fall at historic spawning areas, candidate fish spawning habitat restoration sites, and completed spawning habitat restoration sites throughout the rivers. Widespread evidence was found of lithophilic spawning by numerous native fish species, including walleye (Sander vitreus), lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis), lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), suckers (Family: Catostomidae), and trout-perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus)....

Categories: Data; Tags: Acipenser fulvescens, Aquatic Biology, Catostomidae, Construction Reef, Coregonus clupeaformis, All tags... Detroit River, Ecology, Fish Spawning and Larval Aggregation, Lake Sturgeon, Lake Whitefish, Michigan, Percopsis, Saint Clair River, Saint Marys River, Sander vitreus, Trout-perch, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Walleye, Water Resources, aquatic habitat, biota, ecological restoration, fish, fisheries biology, habitat alteration, inlandWaters, reproduction, Fewer tags