As you could possibly have guessed, I not casting my opinions with no
some backing on my reel: A handful of years ago, though we had been ice
fishing for crappies at Hermon Pond, Fred Kircheis told me the Great
Lakes had been outstanding yellow perch fisheries until alewives showed
up in these inland seas. Consequently, the perch fisheries were
decimated. Fred, of course, may be the fisheries biologist who did an
outstanding job of managing the Flood Pond Arctic char population, and
who recently retired as executive director of Maine Atlantic Salmon
Commission.
Mike Smith, shared my christian louboutin shoes discount
about alewives in Hermon Pond by expressing his displeasure with the
landlocked alewife populations in East Grand Lake and Spednik Lake. Both
lakes are, naturally, productive landlocked salmon fisheries. Trouble
is, the alewives, which somehow showed up in East Grand in 1995, compete
with smelt as plankton feeders. And it no secret that smelt are vital
to salmon fisheries. Smith explained that, biologically, alewives are
improved equipped for feeding on plankton than are smelt and other
little fish.
He explained that alewives typically feed by swimming with their
mouths open to filter plankton.Historically, alewives entered lots of christian louboutin sale australia
rivers and streams to spawn in headwater lakes and ponds. Till dams
were built, the fish reached East Grand and Spednik lakes by way of the
St. Croix River. But as Mike Smith pointed out, early on there had been
no landlocked salmon or smelt in either lake. Truly, only 4 Maine lakes
had native populations of landlocked salmon: Green, Sebec, Sebago and
West Grand. Likewise, smelt were native to only a couple of waters.
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