Cross-basin comparison of mercury bioaccumulation in Lake Huron lake trout emphasizes ecological characteristics

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A. Abma ◽  
Gordon Paterson ◽  
Anne McLeod ◽  
G. Doug Haffner
1967 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. McCombie

The thermal regime of South Bay is described from records collected from 1953 to 1962 with thermometers, thermographs, and bathythermographs, the last being cast at 11 stations along the bay and one in Lake Huron. Warming begins in April and thermal stratification is established in June. Shallow areas warm more rapidly than deep in the spring and cool more quickly in autumn. The boundary between the epilimnion and the thermocline becomes sharper as summer advances but the transition from thermocline to hypolimnion remains gradual. The average seasonal trend of surface temperatures is a sine function with a maximum of 66 F in mid August and a minimum of 34 F in late March, though values outside this range occur frequently. At 180 ft the maximum of 47 F is attained in November. At the lake and outermost bay stations there is a temperature slump in June and July which may be due to an upwelling in the lake. Evidence of an exchange of water between the lake and bay is seen in vertical temperature sections and water movements Variations in epilimnial temperatures are correlated with those of the air temperature, but variations in epilimnial and hypolimnial temperatures appear to be unrelated. Finally, literature describing the influence of temperature on the year class strength of smallmouth bass, the distribution of lake trout, the growth of yellow perch, and the life history of Pontoporeia in South Bay is reviewed.


1974 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Ayles

Estimates of average egg diameter and average number of eggs per female from a brood stock of Salvelinus fontinalis × S. namaycush (splake) hybrids were 0.468 cm and 1169 eggs, respectively. Variation in egg size between females was attributable to variation in both size and age of the fish, whereas differences in fecundity were attributed only to differences in female size. At a given size a splake had more and larger eggs than have been reported for lake trout. The significance of the findings is discussed in relation to the reestablishment of a viable trout population in Lake Huron.


2003 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 347-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger A. Bergstedt ◽  
Ray L. Argyle ◽  
James G. Seelye ◽  
Kim T. Scribner ◽  
Gary L. Curtis

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Edsall ◽  
Charles L. Brown ◽  
Gregory W. Kennedy ◽  
Thomas P. Poe

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
pp. 1228-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothea F. K. Rawn ◽  
Michael Dowd ◽  
Matthew J. S. Scuby ◽  
Peter P. Pantazopoulos ◽  
Mark Feeley

ABSTRACT Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs; sum of 36 congeners) and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs; sum of 17 2,3,7,8-substituted congeners) were measured in 93 composite samples prepared from individual lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) and whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) samples collected from Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior. All samples had detectable concentrations of PCBs and PCDD/Fs; maximum PCB concentrations in both trout (750 ng g−1 whole weight [ww]) and whitefish (210 ng g−1 ww) were found in composites from fish collected from Lake Huron. The maximum toxic equivalent concentration was found in a lake trout composite sample from Lake Huron (53 pg g−1 ww). PCB and PCDD/F congener profiles were comparable to patterns observed in fishes collected from other regions of Canada, although concentrations were above those found in other regions. A positive correlation was found between PCB concentrations determined using the historical Aroclor equivalency method and those determined using the sum of the congeners measured (r2 = 0.871; Spearman correlation r = 0.917) or using the six indicator PCB congeners (28, 52, 101, 138, 153, and 180; r2 = 0.850; Spearman correlation r = 0.935). PCBs were the dominant contributor to the overall toxic equivalent concentrations in the fish composite samples tested. These findings provide insight into PCB and PCDD/F concentrations in two commercially important fish species over a discrete time period.


Author(s):  
David M. Reid ◽  
David M. Anderson ◽  
Bryan A. Henderson
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2018 ◽  
Vol 109 (6) ◽  
pp. 675-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Scribner ◽  
Iyob Tsehaye ◽  
Travis Brenden ◽  
Wendylee Stott ◽  
Jeannette Kanefsky ◽  
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