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Why Goby's Should Matter to Great Lakes Anglers!

Isn't It Time You Got Your GRUMPY Goby On?

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Data From Across the Great Lakes, Combined with Angler Knowledge.

1. Changes in growth and diet of smallmouth bass following invasion of Lake Erie by the round goby

Derek P. Crane, Coastal Carolina University
Donald W. Einhouse, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, January 2016, Journal of Great Lakes Research 42(2)

2. What’s for dinner? Lake Ontario bass indulge on invasive round goby

The Habitat Section of the American Fisheries Society, Brett Culbert, January 23, 2018 · Updated January 16, 2018

3. Comparison of diets for Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass in Eastern Lake Ontario using DNA barcoding and stable isotope analysis

Erich J. H. Nelson, Jeremy Holden, Robert Eves, Bruce Tufts, August 3, 2017

4. Shifting Diets of Lake Trout in Northeastern Lake Michigan

Miles K. Luo, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Charles P. Madenjian, U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center, James S. Diana, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Matthew S. Kornis and Charles R. Bronte, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Green Bay Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office, North American Journal of Fisheries

5. Burbot Growth and Diets in Lakes Michigan and Huron: An Ongoing Shift from Native Species to Round Gobies

Stephen R. henSleR* and david J. J ude, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, J i he, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, American Fisheries Society, 2008

6. Winter distributional overlap facilitates lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) piscivory on invasive round gobies (Neogobius melanostomus) in Green Bay, Lake Michigan.

Gabrielle Lehrer-Brey and Matthew S. Kornis, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin (Received 28 January 2013; final version received 1 May 2013

7. Feeding ecology of the walleye (Percidae, Sander vitreus), a resurgent piscivore in Lake Huron (Laurentian Great Lakes) after shifts in the prey community.

Steven A. Pothoven1 | Charles P. Madenjian2 | Tomas O. Höök3, Aug, 19 2016, Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

8. Size preferences and behaviors of native yellow perch foraging on invasive round gobies.

Michael J Weber, John M. Dettmers, David H Wahl, Sergiusz J. Czesny, Journal of Great Lakes Research, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 584-587

9. Report of the Lake Erie, Forage Task Group, March 2023.

Zak Slagle (co-chair), Heather Luken, Peter Jenkins, Michael Thorn (co-chair), Arthur Bonsall, Tom MacDougall, Jeremy Holden, Jan-Michael Hessenauer, Jim Markham, Mike Hosack, Mark DuFour, Kristen Towne, Forage Task Group. 2023. Report of the Lake Erie Forage Task Group, March 2023. Presented to the Standing Technical, Committee, Lake Erie Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

10. Aquatic invasive species in the freshwater section of the St. Lawrence River.

Isabelle Desjardins, Annick Drouin, Véronik de la Chenelière, Marc Mingelbier, Anne-Marie Pelletier, Marc-Antoine Couillard, Annie Paquet, Olivier Morissette. Published by authority of © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, 2018

11. Increased piscivory by lake whitefish in Lake Huron.

Pothoven, S.A., and Madenjian, C.P. 2013. N. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 33: 1194-1202. DEVELOPING RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR LAKE WHITEFISH IN THE UPPER GREAT LAKES: RESULTS OF A WORKSHOP SPONSORED BY THE GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST AND GREAT LAKES FISHERY COMMISSION. Michigan State University, February 27-28, 2018

12. Spatial variability of lake trout diets in Lakes Huron and Michigan revealed by stomach content and fatty acid profiles.

Austin Happel, Jory L. Jonas, Paul R. McKenna, Jacques Rinchard, Ji Xiang He, and Sergiusz J. Czesny, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 29 March 2017