State of Lake Erie Meeting

[jimski2]

New York Sea Grant's Annual meeting will be held Thursday, April 10, 2014 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the Southtowns Walleye Club House, 5895 Southwestern Boulevard, Hamburg, NY.

Featured speakers will be Don Einhouse, NYDEC Unit leader on the status of the Lake Erie Fish Community.

Also Microplastics, Sturgeon and Toxic Algae will be presented.

Club memberships should be available along with walleye and perch contest entry forms.

Edited April 9, 2014 by jimski2

[jimski2]

Reports from the meeting were an awareness that the fish have digestive systems loaded with particles of plastics that are not passed and could decimate our fishery. Lake Erie walleye and perch should be in good supply again for the next several years. Bass are good now and for the future. Cold water fish will be discussed next week at the club meeting on Thursday, 7:00 PM. Sturgeon have been captured in greater numbers now that gill nets are being used to a greater extent for study. Algae blooms can be deadly to people and pets and are atributed to people living near the shore and farm practices such as ethanol corn production.

[Gill-T]

Any talk of Brown Trout numbers?