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Hi Folks - I can't provide much "science" re the carp population in Dow's Lake but this is what we do know. 1. We put radio tags into 60 carp and NEVER recaptured a single fish during our research angling. In other words, there are plenty of carp to catch! If we recaptured some of them we ...

Hi Folks - Our lab has been doing work in Dow's for three years. Several folks have summarize the take home message of the musky telemetry work (MCI collaboration). Ten fish were tagged - 8 are still swimming around - 1 moved upstream - 1 died in a winterkill event in spring 2008. An undergraduate s...

For those that have the time and interest to wade through the scientific journal article, here is the link to the PDF. http://www.carleton.ca/fecpl/pdfs/TAFS_Philipp%20et%20al%202009.pdf We have also done some follow-up studies and determined that there are differences in metabolic rates between the...

When doing research on fish in eastern Ontario, we rarely attempt to obtain mass measurements. Even though mass is highly desirable from a fisheries research perspective, we find that the measurements are usually so sketchy that they don't merit even trying. The weighing procedure tends to extend ai...

I have been monitoring Fish-Hawk for a few years and figure it is time to start contributing! Our lab (no need to be cryptic - Cooke Lab at Carleton) has been engaged in some local research on this topic. I attach an abstract from a study that we did on Lake Opinicon - it has been accepted for publi...