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

Staff Member

Mike Porta

Mike with shoal bass taken from the Chattahoochee River, Georgia.
Master's
Email: mike.porta@okstate.edu

Education

  • BS Frostburg State University 2006
Research Publications Publication Date
Porta, M.J. and J.M. Long. 2015. Evaluation of a five-year shoal bass conservation-stocking program in the upper Chattahoochee River, Georgia. Pages 169-180 in Tringali, M.D., J.M. Long, T.W. Birdsong, and M.S. Allen, editors. Black bass diversity: multidisciplinary science for conservation. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 82, Bethesda, Maryland. | Abstract February 2015
Project Completion Date
Effects of environmental variation on timing of spawning and early life-history characteristics of two populations of shoal bass in the upper Chattahoochee River basin December 2011
Presentations Presentation Date
Porta, M.J. and J.M. Long. 2013. Evaluation of a Five-Year Shoal Bass Micropterus cataractae Conservation-Stocking Program in the Upper Chattahoochee River, Georgia. Black Bass Diversity Symposium, Southern Division Society American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Nashville. February 2013
Technical Publications Publication Date
Stapanian, MA., M.T. Bur, P.M. Kocovsky, W.H. Edwards, and M.J. Porta. 2008. Ages and Lengths of Yellow Perch Perca flavescens in Commercial Trap Nets in Western Lake Erie. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Niagara Fall, ON. March 2008
Stapanian, M.A., W.H. Edwards, M.J. Porta, M.T. Bur, and P.M. Kocovsky. 2009. Ages and Lengths of Yellow Perch Perca flavescens, White Perch Morone americana, and Lake Whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis in Commercial Trap Nets in Western Lake Erie. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ypsilanti, MI. March 2009
Stapanian, M.A., M.T. Bur, P.M. Kocovsky, W.H. Edwards, and M.J. Porta. 2007. Age Structures of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) and Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in Commercial Trap Nets in Western Ohio. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ypsilanti, MI. March 2007
Kocovsky, P. M., W. H. Edwards, M.J. Porta, M. A. Stapanian , and M. T. Bur. 2009. Spring and Autumn Fish Density, Biomass, and Diets in Michigan and Ontario Waters of the Western Basin of Lake Erie. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ypsilanti, MI. March 2009
Kocovsky, P. M., M.J. Porta, M. T. Bur, M. A. Stapanian, and W. H. Edwards. 2008. Comparison of spring and autumn bottom trawl sampling in the western basin of Lake Erie. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Niagara Falls, ON. March 2008
Bur, M.T., W.H. Edwards, and M.J. Porta. 2007. Prey fish consumption by Double-crested Cormorants in western Lake Erie near West Sister Island, Ohio. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ypsilanti, MI. March 2007
Bur, M.T., W.H. Edwards, M.J. Porta, M.A. Stapanian, and P.M. Kocovsky. 2009. Surveillance and status of fish stocks in western Lake Erie, 2008. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ypsilanti, MI. March 2009
Bur, M.T., M.A. Stapanian, P.M. Kocovsky, W.H. Edwards, and M.J. Porta. 2008. Surveillance and status of fish stocks in western Lake Erie, 2007. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Niagara Falls, ON. March 2008
Bur, M.T., M.A. Stapanian, P.M. Kocovsky, W.H. Edwards, and M.J. Porta. 2007. Surveillance and status of fish stocks in western Lake Erie, 2006. Report to the Standing Technical Committee of the Lake Erie Committee. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ypsilanti, MI. March 2007