Principal Investigator:Cote, Jason E Licensed Year(s):
2010
Summary:
The objectives of the field program are to quantify egg deposition by depth on available habitat for fourteen known or suspected representative shallow reefs and for ten representative deep water reefs in Nonacho Lake, also to conduct mercury sampling in Lake Trout from this lake.
At each of the known or suspected lake trout spawning reefs, a total of 10 numbered egg nets will be buried in cobb...
Principal Investigator:Evans, Marlene S. Licensed Year(s):
2010
2009 Summary:
For several years, studies have been conducted to find out if contaminant levels are changing in lake trout and burbot in Great Slave Lake. The researchers have been seeing some changes with mercury levels increasing and HCH levels declining in these fish. However, there have been other changes in the fish, especially lake trout which appear to contain less fat and to be feeding closer to shore th...