Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

08/19/2021

Lake Erie success story...
https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2021/08/lake-erie-success-story-lake-trout-finally-naturally-reproducing-following-60-year-effort.html

Lake trout were once plentiful in the lake, numbers collapsed due to overfishing, habitat degradation and invasive species.

07/20/2021

Workshop Announcement!

11/16/2020

Check out the Gone Outdoors Podcast -
Charles Kruger Shares Insight Into Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation -

https://omny.fm/shows/gone-outdoors/charles-kruger-shares-insight-into-great-lakes-aco

11/16/2020

Fall lake trout in Lake Erie an untapped resource.

https://buffalonews.com/outdoors/column-fall-lake-trout-in-lake-erie-an-untapped-resource/article_7a085d08-25c9-11eb-83a3-83f877e4a894.html

The captain was apprehensive about taking a trip to target Lake Erie lake trout. The recent record-breaking temperatures had warmed water temperatures a degree or two, slowing the migration of

11/05/2020

10/30/2020

Robo-fish are coming just in time for Halloween! New Paper: https://animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40317-020-00219-7

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and animal telemetry have become important tools for understanding the relationships between aquatic organisms and their environment, but more information is needed to guide the development and use of AUVs as effective animal tracking platforms. A forward-facing...

10/14/2020

GLATOS Uses Advanced Telemetry to Follow Fish Across the Great Lakes.
https://ijc.org/en/glatos-uses-advanced-telemetry-follow-fish-across-great-lakes

Anyone who’s watched fish swim around an aquarium for even a short amount of time knows it’s quite fascinating.

08/21/2020

Status of GLATOS on 8/20/2020

all_projects 98
active_projects 89
species 47
fish_released 13,314
receiver_deployments 13,056
active_deployments 1,638
receiver_stations 4,132
total_detections 635,493,223
detections_matched_to_fish 389,989,563

12/16/2019

New paper by Colborne et al.! Sequence analysis and acoustic tracking of individual lake sturgeon identify multiple patterns of river–lake habitat use.

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.2983

Understanding the spatial ecology of sturgeon (Acipenseridae) has proven to be a challenge due to the life history characteristics of these fish, especially their long life span, intermittent spawnin...

12/06/2019

The Status of GLATOS on 12/6/2019!
number of projects 88
species tagged 46
fish released 12,771
receiver deployments 12,246
active deployments 1,556
receiver stations 3,835
total tag detections 587,263,481
detections matched to fish 369,086,265

11/15/2019

New paper by Jonah Withers et al.! "Integrating Acoustic Telemetry into a Mark–Recapture Model to Improve Catchability Parameters and Abundance Estimates of Lake Sturgeon in Eastern Lake Erie"

https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/nafm.10321?af=R

Estimating abundances of rare fish species that exhibit low recapture rates can be challenging and can require decades’ worth of data to produce reliable results. However, when data sets are limited,...

11/13/2019

09/19/2019

Walleye Show High Spawning Site Fidelity in the Great Lakes!

https://t.e2ma.net/click/oxt9he/8cznru/ss806bb

This article is based on a recent paper, Spawning site fidelity and apparent annual survival of walleye (Sander vitreus) differ between a Lake Huron and Lake Erie tributary, in Ecology of Freshwater Fish, The paper is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12350.

09/16/2019

The Status of GLATOS on 9/16/2019

number of projects 85
species tagged 45
fish released 12,414.00
receiver deployments 11,270.00
active deployments 1,498.00
receiver stations 3,616.00
total tag detections 520,189,350.00
detections matched to fish 330,743,008.00
membership 297
organizations 80

09/04/2019

New paper by Faust et al! Acoustic telemetry as a potential tool for mixed-stock analysis of fishery harvest: a feasibility study using Lake Erie walleye.

https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0522 #.XW-7NChKiCg

08/29/2019

GLATOS in the news!
https://buffalonews.com/2019/08/28/buffalo-lake-erie-fishing-walleye-ohio-records-ashtabula-news-opinion-2019/

Walleye fishing in the New York waters of Lake Erie has been nothing short of phenomenal. As we approach Labor Day and the autumn season,...

08/29/2019

GLATOS past news article!

https://www.post-gazette.com/life/outdoors/2018/08/31/lake-erie-walleye-pennsylvania-fish-and-boat-commission/stories/201809010036

08/06/2019