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

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2006-03-20
End Date
2023-01-01

Citation

DeBruyne, R.L., Roseman, E.F., and Ireland, S.A., 2024, Larval Fish Abundance, Identification, and Auxiliary Data from the Great Lakes and Their Connecting Channels, 2006-2022: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DWPIH0.

Summary

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.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Robin L DeBruyne
Process Contact :
Robin L DeBruyne
Originator :
Robin L DeBruyne, Edward Roseman, Stacey A Ireland
Metadata Contact :
Robin L DeBruyne
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Great Lakes Science Center

Attached Files

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GearEfficiency.csv 11.42 KB text/csv
IndFishLengthTable.csv 31.78 MB text/csv
LarvalDataTable.csv 10.07 MB text/csv
LocationDataTable.csv 53.02 KB text/csv
TaxonomyTable.csv 4.01 KB text/csv

Purpose

The data were collected to assess fish early-life history phenology, including larval fish drift and community composition of the sampled water bodies. Appropriate use of these data include species presence/absence, species phenology, species density, and comparisons over time and between sampled water bodies, provided the specific methods of collection and laboratory processing are appropriately comparable.

Rights

This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9DWPIH0

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