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Nick LeglerGreat Lakes Fisheries Biologist
WI DNR – Sturgeon Bay920‐746‐5112 (desk)
Great Lakes Mass Marking:an Overview and Update
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Presentation outline:•Goals, purpose, & methods• Preliminary results• Future plans
Great Lakes Mass Marking:an Overview and Update
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About 30 million salmon and trout stocked thought the Great Lakes annually
Uncertainty:• Movements?• Growth rates?• Natural reproduction?
• Stocking rates?
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Various Methods for Tagging Studies
Why is Great Lakes mass marking unique?Most Chinooks tagged, across the Great Lakes basin.
Fin Clip CWT OTC
Floy Tag Jaw Tag PIT Tag
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Adipose Fin Clip Coded Wire Tag
Great Lakes Mass Marking:Marking Techniques
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Coded Wire Tag
This number tells us what hatchery, approximately where & when stocked?
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Mass Marking: 4 Overlying Goals
1. Estimate levels of natural reproduction
2. Determine among‐ and within‐lake movements
3. Measure growth & age at capture4. Evaluate hatchery and stocking
practices
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Tagged at Hatcheries when Chinooks are small.
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Tagged by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service using Automated Trailers
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Automated Tagging Trailers
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Automated Tagging Trailers
Search: “Mass Marking in the Great Lakes”
Search: “Lake Michigan fish tagging machine”
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Number of Chinook tagged & marked by USFWS for Lakes Michigan and Huron
Year # Tagged & Clipped
Efficiency(fish / hour)
2011 4,689,947 7,2422012 3,931,206 8,288
Currently almost all hatchery Chinook and Lake Trout, eventually every hatchery fish?
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Coded wire tags are recovered from:Agency Surveys & Anglers
Length, weight, location, snout, etc.
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Tags are extracted by USFWS
• Metal detector• What hatchery, where & when stocked?
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Chinook Natural Reproduction: CWT (newer study) vs. OTC (older study)
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OTC Project Results…
OTC is fed to hatchery Chinooks, and it creates a mark on the vertebrate.
OTC Mark
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OTC Project Results
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1 2 3 4
Year Sampled: 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010
Percent W
ild (%
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Age
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Preliminary CWT Results, for movement…
Adipose Clip Coded Wire Tag
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
Marinette / MenomineeN = 49 CWTs
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
Marinette / MenomineeN = 49 CWTs
4 States
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
Marinette / MenomineeN = 49 CWTs
Lake Huron
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
Sturgeon BayN = 30 CWTs
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
AlgomaN = 14 CWTs
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
KewauneeN = 46 CWTs
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
Two RiversN = 11 CWTs
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
ManitowocN = 113 CWTs
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= SamplingLocation
= StockingSites
Preliminary Results 2012:
SheboyganN = 7 CWTs
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Ellison Bay, WIMenominee River, WI
Oconto River, WIAhnapee River, WI
Kewaunee River, WIEast & West Twin, WI
Manitowoc, WISheboygan, WI
Port Washington, WIMilwaukee, WI
Racine, WIWaukegan, IL
Diversey Harbor, ILJackson Harbor, ILLittle Calumet, IN
Buffington Harbor, IN
Trail Creek, IN
Big Sable River, MI
Little Manistee River, MI
Kids Creek, MI (?)
Medusa Creek, MI
Lake Huron
WI anglers catch Chinooks from many stocking locations!
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CWT data will help us to evaluate growth rates & predator‐prey balance.
slow growth?
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CWT data will also help to evaluate hatchery and stocking practices for
Chinooks. In the future, other species may also be evaluated using coded wire tags (depending on funds, etc.).
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Possible Limitations
•A CWT number is assigned to each lot of stocked fish, not to each individual fish
• $5.9 million annual operating budget
Possible Example of Lot Codes
Stocking SiteTag Number Grouping
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Overall Conclusions
• Growth?• Survival?• Movement?• Reproduction?
Use what we learn to guide management decisions!
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Acknowledgements
USFWS “Great Lakes Fish Marking Laboratory” in Green Bay – thanks!
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• Nick Legler• Lake Michigan Fisheries Biologist• WI Department of Natural Resources• 110 S. Neenah AvenueSturgeon Bay, WI 54235
• Phone: 920‐746‐5112 • E‐mail: [email protected]
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