Publications
This list of publications includes peer-review journal articles, official USGS publications series, reports and more authored by scientists in the Ecosystems Mission Area. A database of all USGS publications, with advanced search features, can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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The age and growth of the Lake Erie sheepshead, Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque
Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
John Van Oosten
Michigan's commercial fisheries of the Great Lakes
Five races of cottontail rabbits belonging to three species occur in Virginia. One of them, the Mearns cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsi), is reported here for the first time. It occurs in six southwestern counties of the state, while the eastern cottontail (S. f. mallurus) occurs in the remainder of the state with the exception of Smith and Fishermans islands off the eastern coast of Cap
Authors
John Van Oosten
From cisco to perch to pike: the fish by fish account of depletion of Great Lakes fisheries
Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
John Van Oosten
The food of the lake trout (Cristivomer namaycush namaycush) and of the lawyer (Lota maculosa) of Lake Michigan
This paper reports on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the contents of 4,979 lake trout stomachs (593 examined in 1930 and 1,253 collected in 1931 from southern Lake Michigan, 1,446 from northern Lake Michigan and 1,687 from Green Bay in 1932), and of a total of 1,528 lawyer stomachs (172 examined in 1930 and 734 collected in 1931 from southern Lake Michigan, 612 from northern Lake Michi
Authors
John Van Oosten, Hilary J. Deason
Morphometry of the cisco, Leucichthys artedi (Le Sueur), in the lakes of the Northeastern Highlands, Wisconsin
In an earlier study (Hile, 1936) a detailed investigation was presented of the age and growth of the ciscoes of Trout Lake, Musckellunge Lake, Silver Lake, and Clear Lake in northeastern Wisconsin. It was demonstrated that the growth rate of the cisco varies widely from lake to lake within the same geographical area, and that these differences in growth rate show a close correlation with certain e
Authors
Ralph Hile
Furunculosis in wild trout
Furunculosis, or as it has been more appropiately termed, "fish septicemia," is a disease primarily affecting salmon and trout. It is caused by the invasion and growth of Bacterium salmonicida Emmerich and Weibel, a Gram negative, non-spore forming, diplobacterium belonging to the family Bacteriaceae Cohn. After gaining entrance to the host, presumably by way of the digestive tract, the organism i
Authors
F. F. Fish
The Great Lakes fisheries: their proper management for sustained yields
No abstract available.
Authors
John Van Oosten
The dispersal of smelt, Oserus mordax (Mitchill), in the Great Lakes region
No abstract avaiable.
Authors
John Van Oosten
The age, growth, and sex ratio of the Lake Superior longjaw, Leucichthys zenithicus (Jordan and Evermann)
Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
John Van Oosten
First records of the smelt, Osmerus mordax, in Lake Erie
Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
John Van Oosten