Like other members of the sucker family, chubsuckers are bottom feeders. Their diet is mostly insect larvae, aquatic plants, and tiny crustaceans. Neither species is of any importance to commercial or recreational fisheries in New York. Distribution of lake chubsuckers in NY state. Dark dots represent where actual samples of lake chubsuckers were taken.
White dots represent historic distributions.
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