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Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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Importance of habitat and migration to sturgeons with emphasis on lake sturgeon

Authors: Auer, N A;

Importance of habitat and migration to sturgeons with emphasis on lake sturgeon

Abstract

Sturgeons utilize a variety of habitat types throughout their life: rivers for spawning; rivers, lakes, estuaries, or the sea for feeding and wintering adults; and estuarine areas for feeding young. Distances covered by some sturgeons during spawning migrations show a positive relationship to average adult size. The lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, is the only sturgeon endemic to the Great Lakes basin. Most remaining populations in the basin are restricted in movement, yet a few, free-ranging populations still remain. Study of these populations will more adequately define range and habitat preferences of the species. Some state and federal agencies are now creating management plans for lake sturgeon. Those plans need to be based on information gathered from free-ranging groups. A barrier-free 250-300 km combined river and lake range is suggested as a minimum distance to support self-sustaining populations and distances of 750-1000 km should not be considered unusual. Fishery managers should give barrier removal or fish passage greater consideration than habitat enhancement for populations currently isolated and restricted in range. Resume : Les esturgeons utilisent des habitats varies tout au long de leur vie: des cours d'eau pour le frai, des cours d'eau, des lacs, des estuaires ou la mer pour l'alimentation et l'hivernage des adultes et des estuaires pour l'alimentation des jeunes. La distance parcourue par certains esturgeons pendant les migrations de frai presente une relation positive avec la taille moyenne a l'âge adulte. L'esturgeon jaune est le seul qui soit indigene au bassin des Grands Lacs. La plupart des populations qui y survivent encore voient leurs deplacements limites, mais il demeure quelques populations a libres deplacements. L'etude de ces populations permettra de bien definir l'aire de repartition et les habitats preferes de l'espace. Certains organismes d'Etats ou du gouvernement federal elaborent actuellement des plans de gestion pour l'esturgeon jaune. Ces plans doivent reposer sur les donnees obtenues a partir de groupes a deplacements libres. On propose des zones de cours d'eau et de lacs libres d'obstacles infranchissables sur une distance de 250 a 300 km comme minimum pour la survie de populations auto-suffisantes, mais des distances de 750 a 1000 km ne doivent pas etre jugees comme anormalement grandes. Les gestionnaires des peches devraient accorder une attention plus grande a l'elimination des obstacles ou a la mise en place de passages pour poissons qu'a l'amelioration de l'habitat lors de la mise en valeur de populations actuellement isolees et dont l'aire est limitee. (Traduit par la Redaction)

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adult, habitat, spawning, lake sturgeon, migration, sturgeon, fish passage, estuary, Acipenser fulvescens, habitat preference, Great Lakes

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