Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Pennsylvania
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Recruitment failures have led to declines of Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and Cisco (C. artedi sensu lato) throughout the Great Lakes and in inland lakes. Maintaining, restoring, and the re-establishment of coregonid populations requires understanding environmental drivers of population processes and how population-specific biology may need to be integrated into hatchery-based culturing and stocking practices. This project will quantify the oxythermal performance of coregonid populations and examine whether populations from different environments exhibit habitat-relevant differences in physiology.