Quantifying Great Lakes sea lamprey populations using an index of adults
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Abstract
Effective control of aquatic invasive species requires knowledge of the population throughout the infested area. Lake-wide assessments of invasive sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) are used to assess their status in the Laurentian Great Lakes, informing fisheries managers and decision makers in the sea lamprey control program. Initially these assessments focused on an estimate of absolute abundance, but later switched to an estimate of relative abundance as an index. In this paper, we describe the recently developed index of sea lamprey abundance and the reasons for its use. Rather than trying to estimate spawning run sizes of all Great Lakes tributaries, the index instead estimates run sizes of a small subset of index streams. Streams chosen for the index had large spawning runs and a history of trapping operations that consistently yielded mark-recapture estimates. This change enabled the sea lamprey control program to abandon a previously used regression model that predicted run size on streams with no sea lamprey traps. Further research is needed to determine how strongly correlated the index is with actual patterns in the lake-wide population of adult sea lampreys.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Quantifying Great Lakes sea lamprey populations using an index of adults |
| Series title | Journal of Great Lakes Research |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jglr.2021.04.009 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | Suppl 1 |
| Year Published | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Contributing office(s) | Great Lakes Science Center |
| Description | 12 p. |
| First page | S335 |
| Last page | S346 |
| Country | Canada, United States |
| Other Geospatial | Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior |
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