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Assessment of Yellow Perch in Green Bay
Phase 1 of the Lake Michigan Fisheries Forum Yellow Perch Workshop Recommendations

Status: In Progress

Location: Bay of Green Bay

Description: The Lake Michigan Fisheries Forum arranged a series of three workshops to engage interested public in identifying potential solutions to Green Bay yellow perch issues. Generally the workshop participants desired to conserve the existing Green Bay yellow perch stocks through better management and understanding of predatory and habitat influences. Both Forum members and other workshop participants expressed a need to reexamine the way the yellow perch population abundance is assessed. This includes updating the Walters Model, considering new population sampling methods and sampling sites.

In coordination and cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Green Bay Fishery Resources Office will provide: 1) Assistance and expertise of John Netto, fish population model expert, in the development of an updated statistical catch-at-age model of yellow perch in Green Bay, with a fully implemented model as a deliverable product, 2) assistance in the evaluation of the lampara seine as an assessment or commercial fishing gear to capture Green Bay fish species, and other yellow perch assessment activities deemed appropriate by the Department and the Fish and Wildlife Service, 3) assistance in the review and consolidation of yellow perch assessment records and data into an electronic format, and 4) a review of the temporal and spatial scale of assessment methods currently used by the Department to assess yellow perch in Green Bay.

Benefits: Work accomplished will produce information needed to meet the goal of self-sustaining fish populations in Green Bay.

Restoration Goal(s): Fishery Resource Enhancement

Timeline: Project will be carried through to September 30, 2003.

Project Contact:
Mark Holey
Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service


Last Revised: Tuesday March 01 2005