First Occurrence of a Juvenile Chain Pickerel (<i>Esox niger</i>) in Ontario Waters of Lake Ontario

Brian P. Morrison; Daniel J. Moore

doi:10.22621/cfn.v131i4.1946

First Occurrence of a Juvenile Chain Pickerel (Esox niger) in Ontario Waters of Lake Ontario

Authors

Brian P. Morrison Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority
Daniel J. Moore

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v131i4.1946

Keywords:

Esox niger, Chain Pickerel, range expansion, Ontario, Lake Ontario

Abstract

This paper documents the first juvenile Chain Pickerel (Esox niger) captured in Ontario waters of Lake Ontario. It was found during August 2016 monitoring activities at Port of Newcastle. Its occurrence represents a significant westward range expansion from recently documented adults in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario/Bay of Quinte/St. Lawrence River, likely colonizing from United States waters of Lake Ontario.

Downloads

Published

2018-05-23

Issue

Vol. 131 No. 4 (2017)

Section

Notes

License

Copyright for Canadian Field-Naturalist content is held by the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, except for content published by employees of federal government departments, in which case the copyright is held by the Crown. In-copyright content available at the Biodiversity Heritage Library is available for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. For usage of content at the BHL for purposes other than those allowed under this licence, contact us.

To request use of copyright material, please contact our editor, Dr. Dwayne Lepitzki: editor -at- canadianfieldnaturalist -dot- ca