Artificial Turf as a Substrate for Incubating Lake Trout Eggs on Reefs in Lake Superior
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Progressive Fish-Culturist
- Vol. 44 (2) , 109-111
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1982)44[109:ataasf]2.0.co;2
Abstract
In October 1980, more than 50,000 eggs of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) were placed between layers of artificial turf, 30 x 90 cm. These “sandwiches” were suspended from plastic jugs above the bottom at Devils Island Reef, Lake Superior, and anchored to pieces of railroad track. The total material cost for each sandwich was $45. When they were retrieved from the reef in May 1981, about 78% of the eggs had apparently hatched and most sac fry had left the sandwiches.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: