The lake chub is an early spawner, moving into streams in April in the southern part of its range. The lake chub spawns at about the same time as the smelt or even earlier. Zooplankton, aquatic insects, algae and small fishes are the chief food items. Distribution of lake chub in NY state. Dark dots represent where actual samples of lake chub were taken.
White dots represent historic distributions.
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