**GLERL Great Lakes Fisheries Research (and Recent Scientific
Publications)**

GLERL's Fisheries Research falls primarily into 2 theme areas --
"Ecological Prediction" and "Invasive Species". Work in the "Physical
Environment Prediction" and "Environmental Observing Systems" theme
areas may also be relevant in supporting fisheries issues.

Ecological Prediction:

-   Study Group on Fisheries Acoustics in the Great Lakes

-   Salmonid Spawning Stock Abundance, Recruitment and Exploitation in
    the Muskegon River, Michigan

-   Modeling the Influence of Lake Circulation Patterns, Upwelling
    Events, and Turbulence on Fish Recruitment Variability in Lake
    Michigan

-   Dynamics of Alewife Recruitment Variability in Lake Michigan

-   An Evaluation of Bioenergetics Modeling for Lake Whitefish in Lake
    Michigan

-   Ecology of Lake Whitefish and Response to Changes in Benthic
    Communities in Lake Huron

-   Effects of Diporeia Declines on Fish Diet, Growth and Food Web
    Dynamics in Southeast Lake Michigan

-   Watershed - Great Lakes Interactions: Defining the Ecological
    Footprint of the Muskegon River Watershed on Fisheries in Nearshore
    Lake Michigan

-   Toward the Census of Marine Life: Proof of Concept Through the
    Integration of Traditional, Optical and Acoustic Zooplankton and
    Fish Data in the Chesapeake Bay (Chesapeake)

-   Ecosystem Variability and Estuarine Fisheries (Chesapeake Bay)

-   Habitat-Mediated Predator-Prey Interactions in the Eastern Gulf of
    Mexico (Gulf)

-   Regional Collaboration in Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting
    in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Adriatic Sea)

Invasive Species

-   Implications of Cercopagis and Bythotrephes to Alewife Recruitment
    and Stability of the Lake Michigan Pelagic Food Web

-   Impact of Exotic Invertebrate Invaders on Food Web Structure and
    Function in the Great Lakes: Development of Network Analysis Tools

-   Changes in the Pelagic Food Web of Southern Lake Michigan: A Food
    Web Under Stress from Non-indigenous Species?

-   Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Database

-   Development of a Food Web Model (DOVE- Digital Organisms in a
    Virtual Ecosystem) to Examine Problems Concerning Invasive Species

Indirectly Supporting

-   Food Web

    -   Assessments of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in the
        Great Lakes Region

    -   Long Term Trends in Benthic Populations in Lake Michigan

    -   Pelagic-Benthic Coupling in Nearshore Lake Michigan: Linking
        Pelagic Inputs to Benthic Productivity

    -   Tumor-like Anomalies in Lake Michigan Zooplankton

-   Contaminants

    -   Bioavailability of Sediment-Associated Toxic Organic
        Contaminants

    -   Contaminant Effects Using Body Residues as the Dose Metric

    -   Environmental Radiotracers

-   Habitat

    -   Developing Guidance for Monitoring Coastal Freshwater Habitat
        Restoration

    -   CoastWatch Operations

    -   CoastWatch Research and Product Development

    -   Lake Circulation Studies and the Great Lakes Coastal Forecast
        System

    -   Thermal Structure Monitoring and Related Studies

    -   Real-time Meteorological Observation Network

    -   Development of an Integrated Coastal Observing System for the
        Great Lakes

    -   Dynamical Modeling of Great Lakes Regional Climate

    -   Climatology of the Physical Environment in Lake Erie

    -   Improved Great Lakes Ice Cover Climatology

    -   Great Lakes Ice Cycles

    -   Ice Thickness Data Rescue

    -   Sediments of Lake Erie

    -   The Impact of Episodic Events on Great Lakes Ecosystems (EEGLE)

    -   Measurement and Modeling of Wave-induced Sediment Resuspension
        in Nearshore Water

    -   Measurement and Time-frequency Study of Nearshore Wind, Wave and
        Sediment Resuspension

    -   Measurement of Sediment Resuspension, Transport, and Particle
        Size in Lake Erie

    -   New Bathymetry of the Great Lakes

    -   Next Generation Large Basin Runoff Model

Recent Publications

-   Recruitment

    -   Hook, T. O., E. S. Rutherford, S. J. Brines, D. M. Mason, D. J.
        Schwab, M. J. McCormick, G. W. Fleischer and T. J. DeSorcie.
        Spatially explicit measures of production of young alewives in
        Lake Michigan: linkage between essential fish habitat and
        recruitment. Estuaries 26(1):21-29 (2003).

-   Diet/Condition/Food Web

    -   Bronte, C. R., M. P. Ebener, D. R. Schreiner, D. S.
        DeVault, M. M. Petzold, D. A. Jensen, C. Richards, and S. J.
        LOZANO. Fish community change in Lake Superior, 1970-2000.
        *Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences*
        60:1552-1574 (2003).
        <http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2003/20030016.pdf>

    -   Krause, A. E., K. A. FRANK, D. M. MASON, R. E. Ulanowicz,
        and W. W. Taylor. Compartments revealed in food-web structure.
        *Nature* 426:282-285 (2003).
        <http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2003/20030014.pdf>

    -   Pothoven, S. A., T. F. Nalepa, and S. B. Brandt. Age-0 and age-1
        yellow perch diet in southeastern Lake Michigan. Journal of
        Great Lakes Research 26(2):235-239 (2000).

    -   Tyler, J. A., and S. B. Brandt. Do spatial models of growth rate
        potential reflect fish growth in a heterogeneous environment? A
        comparison of model results. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 10:43-56
        (2001).

    -   Pothoven, SA; Nalepa, TF; Schneeberger, PJ; Brandt, SB. 2001.
        Changes in diet and body condition of lake whitefish in southern
        Lake Michigan associated with changes in benthos. North American
        Journal of Fisheries Management, 21 (4): 876-883 NOV 2001.

    -   Kitchell, J. F., S. P. Cox, C. J. Harvey, T. B. Johnson, D. M.
        Mason, K. K. Schoen, K. Aydin, C. Bronte, M. Ebener, M.
        Hansen, M. Hoff, S. Schram, D. Schreiner, and C. J. Walters.
        Sustainability of the Lake Superior fish community: Interactions
        in a food web context. Ecosystems 3:545-560 (2000).

-   Habitat

    -   Pothoven, S. A., B. Vondracek, and D. L. Pereira. Effects of
        vegetation removal on Bluegill and Largemough Bass in two
        Minnesota lakes. North American Journal of Fisheries Management
        19:748-757 (1999).

    -   Price, H., S. A. Pothoven, M. J. McCormick, P. C. Jensen
        and G. L. FAHNENSTIEL. Temperature influence on commercial Lake
        Whitefish harvest in eastern Lake Michigan. Journal of Great
        Lakes Research 29(2):296-300 (2003).

    -   Brandt, S. B., D. M. Mason, M. J. McCormick, B. M.
        Lofgren, T. S. Hunter, and J. A. Tyler. Climate change:
        implications for fish growth performance in the Great Lakes.
        American Fisheries Society Symposium 32:61-76 (2002).

-   Contaminants

    -   Cook, P. M., J. A. Robbins, D. D. Endicott, K. Lodge, P. D.
        Guiney, M. K. Walker, E. W. Zabel and R. E. Peterson. Effects of
        Aryl Hydrocarbon receptor-mediated early life stage toxicity on
        Lake Trout populations in Lake Ontario during the 20th Century.
        Environmental Science and Technology 37(17):3864-3877 (2003).

-   Acoustic Technology Development

    -   Mason, D. M., A. Goyke, S. B. Brandt, and J. M. Jech. Acoustic
        fish stock assessment in the Laurentian Great Lakes. In The
        Great Lakes of the World (GLOW): Food-web, health and
        integrity, M. Munawar and R.E. Hecky (Eds.), Backhuys
        Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 317-339 (2001).

    -   Horne, J. K. Acoustic approaches to remote species
        identification. Fisheries Oceanography 9(4):356-371 (2000).

    -   Horne, J. K., P. D. Walline, and J. M. Jech. Comparing acoustic
        model predictions to in situ backscatter measurements of fish
        with dual-chambered swim bladders. Journal of Fish Biology
        57:1105-1121 (2000).

    -   Jech, J. M., and J. K. Horne. Effects of in situ target spatial
        distributions on acoustic density estimates. ICES Journal of
        Marine Science 58:123-136 (2001).

    -   Jech, J. M., and J. Luo. Digital Echo Visualization and
        Information System (DEVIS) for processing spatially-explicit
        fisheries acoustic data. Journal of Fisheries Research
        27:115-124 (2000).

    -   Horne, J. K., and J. M. Jech. Multi-frequency estimates of fish
        abundance: constraints of rather high frequencies. ICES Journal
        of Marine Science 56:184-199 (1999). Rudstam, L., J. K. HORNE,
        and G. Gleischer. Translation of acoustic data to fish abundance
        (and standardization of acoustic methods for the Great Lakes
        region). Report from the Great Lakes Acoustic Workshop III,
        Cornell Biological Field Station, February 11-12, 1999. 12 pp.
        (1999).

    -   TylerR, J. A. GRP Map Maker: A User\'s Guide to Spatial Models
        of Fish Habitat Combining Acoustic Data and Bioenergetics
        Models. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL GLERL-110, Great Lakes
        Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, (NTIS#
        PB99-114837/XAB) 51 pp. (1998).
        ftp://ftp.glerl.noaa.gov/publications/tech_reports/glerl-110

    -   Horne, J.K., and C.S. Clay. Sonar systems and aquatic organisms:
        matching equipment and model parameters. Canadian Journal of
        Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:1296-1306 (1998).

    -   Horne, J.K., and J.M. Jech. Quantifying intra-species variation
        in acoustic backscatter models. Proceedings, 135th Meeting of
        the Accoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, August
        20-26, 1998. 1821-1822 (1998).

    -   Jech, J.M., and J.K. Horne. Sensitivity of acoustic scattering
        models to fish morphometry. Proceedings, 135th Meeting of the
        Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, August 20-26, 1998.
        1819-1820 (1998).

    -   MILLER, G. S. Mysis vertical migration in Grand Traverse Bay,
        Lake Michigan, observed by an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler.
        *Journal of Great Lakes Research* 29(3):427-435 (2003).

-   Non-Great Lakes

    -   Brandt, S. B. and D. M. Mason. Effect of nutrient loading on
        Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) growth rate potential in
        the Patuxent River. Estuaries 26(2A):298-309 (2003).

    -   Luo, J., K. J. Hartman, S. B. Brandt, C. F. Cerco, and T. H.
        Rippetoe. A spatially-explicit approach for estimating carrying
        capacity: An application for the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia
        tyrannus) in Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries 24(4):545-556 (2001).

    -   Richardson-Heft, C. A., A. A. Heft, L. Fewlass, and S. B.
        Brandt. Movement of Largemouth Bass in Northern Chesapeake Bay:
        Relevance to sportfishing tournaments. North American Journal of
        Fisheries Management 20:493-501 (2000).

    -   Pothoven, S.A., S.B. Brandt, J.M. Jech, D.W. Hondorp, and K.L.
        Barry. Fish abundance, size and speices composition in the
        G-West and reference areas Near Pooles Island. Final Report,
        Maryland Environmental Service, Annapolis, Maryland, 199 pp.
        (1998).

    -   Mora, C., P. M. Chittaro, P. F. Sale, J. P. Kritzer, and S. A.
        Ludsin. Patterns and processes in reef fish diversity. Nature
        421:933-936 (2003).

    -   Houde, E. D., S. Jukic-Peladic, and S. B. Brandt. Fisheries:
        Trends in Catches, Abundance and Management. In Ecosystems at
        the Land-Sea Margin, T. Malone et al. (Eds.), 341-366 (1999).

    -   Demers, E., S. B. Brandt, K. L. Barry, and J. M. Jech.
        Spatially-explicit models of growth rate potential: linking
        estuarine fish production to the biological and physical
        environment. In Estuarine Synthesis: A Synthetic Approach to
        Research and Practice, J.E. Hobbie (Ed.), Island Press,
        Washington, DC, pp. 405-425 (2000).

    -   Horne, J. K., P. E. Smith, and D. C. Schneider. Comparative
        examination of scale-explicit biological and physical processes:
        recruitment of Pacific hake (Merluccius productus). Canadian
        Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56(1):170-179 (1999).

    -   Willette, TM; Cooney, RT; Patric, V; Mason, DM; Thomas, GL;
        Scheel, D. 2001. Ecological processes influencing mortality of
        juvenile pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Prince William
        Sound, Alaska. Fisheries Oceanography, 10: 14-41 Suppl. 1 2001.

    -   Norcross, BL; Brown, ED; Foy, RJ; Frandsen, M; Gay, SM; Kline,
        TC; Mason, DM; Patrick, EV; Paul, AJ; Stokesbury, KDE. 2001. A
        synthesis of the life history and ecology of juvenile Pacific
        herring in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Fisheries Oceanography,
        10: 42-57 Suppl. 1 2001.

    -   Walline, P. D., J. A. Tyler, S. B. Brandt, I. Ostrovsky,
        and J. M. Jech. Lavnun abundance: how changes may affect
        consumption of Lake Kinneret zooplankton. Arch. Hydrobiol. Spec.
        Issues Advances in Limnology 55:493-511 (2000).