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A
Once
again,
thanks
for
coming
I'm,
Edie,
Clements,
City
Commission
based
city
happy
to
kick
off
second
breakout
session
on
our
Saginaw
Bay
fisheries.
We
have
three
excellent
presentations
on
the
way.
Our
first
presenter
is
a
Dave
fielder
from
the
Michigan
Department
of
Natural
Resources
on
the
status
of
Saginaw
bass,
fisheries,
dr.
Dave,
fielder
he's
a
research
biology
with
the
Michigan
DNR
stationed
in
Alpena
works,
primarily
on
Lake
Huron.
His
specialty
includes
cool
water
species
such
as
walleyes,
yellow
perch,
Cisco
and
many
others.
His
projects
on
Saginaw
Bay,
relational
islands
and
the
st.
Marys
River
dr.
A
B
Sometimes
I
think
of
our
fisheries
is
sort
of
the
culmination
of
that
that
if
we
have
soil
conservation,
if
we
have
water
quality,
if
we
have
good
habitat,
it
will
manifest
itself
in
healthy,
robust
fisheries.
So
maybe
we
can
kind
of
think
of
this
as
sort
of
the
scorecard
in
some
respects,
on
where
we
are
relative
to
so
many
different
kinds
of
efforts
amongst
a
lot
of
different
agencies
and
stakeholder
groups.
B
We
do
a
lot
in
Saginaw
Bay
and
one
of
our
projects
actually
dates
back
to
1970,
but
this
is
I
just
started
this
time.
Series
here
in
1986
is
our
annual
trawling
work
and
with
that
we
just
finished
this
work
up
for
2017.
We
do
this
in
the
beginning,
the
first
half
of
September
every
year,
so
this
is
one
of
our
annual
looks
at
the
status
of
the
fish
community,
in
this
case
we're
looking
at
the
juvenile
walleye
and
we
see
age
zero,
meaning
they
haven't
they're
investing
a
year
old.
B
You
can
see
for
a
long
time.
The
the
caret
rate
was
down
about
this
high
here
and
in
fact,
1998
was
what
we
regarded
as
very
strong
year
class
and
we're
really
excited
about
that
and
everything
changed
in
in
in
2003
and
ever
since,
we've
seen
much
higher
levels
of
reproductive
success
and
recruitment
on
walleye,
which
of
course
has
been
one
of
our
long-term
goals
is
to
see
the
walleye
reach
our
recovery
targets,
which
are
designed
basically
around
hitting
historic
densities
of
law.
B
Our
lives,
which
are
pre
fish
in
much
of
the
Upper
Great
Lakes,
including
Lake
Huron,
largely
disappeared
about
2003.
There's
a
lot
of
different
schools
of
thought
about,
yl
wives
have
disappeared
and
we
could
have
a
whole
workshop
just
on
that,
but
suffice
it
to
say
that
they
are
no
longer
abundant
in
the
in
the
lake
and
they
use
Saiga
nabe
as
a
spawning
and
nursery
grounds.
So
they
would
come.
The
adult
li
was
to
come
in
from
the
main
basin
into
sagan.
B
I
bay
for
spawning
right
about
the
same
time
that
our
walleye
fry
were
emerging,
and
that
put
me
in
proximity
to
each
other
and
lis
would
feed
on
the
emergent
while
I
fry
or
would
compete
with
them
for
firstfruits,
and
we
believe
that
that
was
really
had
a
repressive
effect
on
their
abundance
until
they
finally
disappeared
and
then
was
while
I
were
released
from
the
effects
of
our
lives.
We
can
see
how
the
reproductive
success
really
took
off.
B
Those
percentages
by
the
way
on
top
of
each
bar
is
a
percent
of
hatchery
contribution,
and
we
knew
that
because
back
when
we
were
stocking,
we
would
treat
our
hatchery
walleye
with
a
chemical
called
oxytocin,
cycling
hydrochloride,
which
was
basically
an
antibiotic
that
would
put
a
small
mark
on
certain
bones.
That
would
allow
us
to
recognize
him
as
hatchery
fish
later,
so
we
could
actually
distinguish
how
much
of
these
bars
were
a
result
of
stocking
and
how
much
was
natural
reproduction,
and
you
can
see
that
the
values
were
arranging
over
from
sixty
to
ninety
percent.
B
So
most
of
that
was
a
hatchery
support
population
back
then,
and
once
we
started
seeing
these
newly
high
bars,
the
hatchery
contribution
dropped
way
down.
We
finally
discontinued
stocking
entirely
in
2006,
in
accordance
with
a
recovery
plan,
that
we
have
laid
out
some
decision
criteria
and
we've
been
enjoying
strong
natural
reproduction
ever
since
now
this
data
series
ends
in
2016,
but
we
just
did
the
2017
like
I
mentioned,
and
the
value
was
right
around
right
around
the
height
of
this
bar
here.
So
we
had
a
little
bit
of
lower
here
in
2016.
B
We
now
realize
that
allies
were
having
a
greater
effect
than
we
previously
thought
and
we'd
like
to
take
credit
for
releasing
while.I
from
this
suppressive
effect.
But,
like
I
said
it
was
a
combination
of
environmental
issues
and
other
invasive
species.
It
led
to
the
disappearance
of
El
Watson
yeah
wise
by
the
way.
I,
remember
are
an
evasive
species
they're
not
native
to
the
Great
Lakes,
so
it's
not
surprising
that
they
had
a
deleterious
effect
on
native
species.
B
B
Gill
nets
make
a
bad
commercial
gear
because
they
kill
everything
that
they
cast,
but
they
make
a
really
good
research
gear
because
they
give
us
a
nice
cross-section
of
the
entire
fish
community
all
species,
and
if
we
use
variable
mesh
sizes,
we
can
get
all
ages
and
sizes.
So
that's
what
this
data
represents
here
and
you
can
see
how
they
have
also
increased.
Predictably
with
the
better
reproduction.
B
It's
been
somewhat
variable,
but
there's
the
most
recent
guy
on
this
axis
and
the
2017
violets
not
plotted
it's
about
the
same
height
as
this.
So
we
have
lots
of
walleye
out
there
and
we
met
our
recovery
goal
in
2009.
I'll
show
you
a
slide
specific
to
that
criteria.
So
we
formally
declared
recover
recovery
for
the
second
I'm,
a
white
population
in
2009,
and
that's
something
that
I
wasn't
sure
I'd
ever
see
in
my
lifetime,
let
alone
within
my
career,
but
it
happened
very
quickly
once
things
changed.
B
B
B
B
B
But
this
was
predictable
and
we
knew
that
this
would
happen
because
fish
growth
is
typically
density
dependent
and
we
actually
put
that
to
work
for
us
in
terms
of
developing
a
recovery
criteria.
For
why
one
of
the
problems
we've
had
in
the
past,
with
planning
for
fish
population
recovery
is
to
know
what's
a
reasonable
goal
to
have,
and
most
of
that
has
been
defined,
a
predicated
back
on
what
historic
yields
were
in
the
commercial
fishery
back
in
the
1800's,
the
first
half
of
the
20th
century.
That's
a
reasonable
approach.
B
But
is
it
realistic
to
expect
that
our
fish
populations
are
going
to
be
that
productive
as
they
were
back
in
this
pristine
conditions?
Maybe
not
so
the
way
we
defined
recovery
for
wall
and
Saginaw
Bay
is
to
say
that
they
are
going
we're.
Not
the
fish
tell
us
when
they
are
at
the
capacity
of
the
habitat
and
the
prey
base
and
we're
going
about
the
growth
rate.
Do
that,
so
we
define
a
recovery
target,
as
once
we
had
three
out
of
five
consecutive
years
at
the
growth
rate
of
age.
B
Three
wide
reach
this
recovery
target,
which
was
defined
as
a
hundred
and
ten
percent
of
the
state
average
growth
rate.
We
know
what
the
state
average
rate
is
typically
for
walleyes
this
time
of
year,
and
we
have
first
achieved
that
in
2009
now
it's
not
that
our
goal
was
to
have
slower
growing
walleyes,
it's
nice
to
have
fast
flowing
water.
B
That's
part
of
how
you
get
too
few
fish,
but
it's
a
trade-off
with
abundance
and
we
really
wanted
to
see
abundance
come
down
and
we-
and
this
movie
worked
for
us
in
terms
of
the
fish
or
telling
us
when
they
came
in
line
with
the
available
prey,
Basin
habitat.
So
that's
what
happened
in
2009
that
we
can
see.
B
Since
then,
it's
been
creeping
back
up
as
densities
coming
back
down
some
so
far,
we're
still
within
this
range,
but
it
does
illustrate
the
point
that,
depending
on
whatever
happens
with
walleye
in
the
future,
which
traces
back
to
the
food
resources
and
water
quality
and
the
land
management,
we
can
lose
this
recovery
too.
We
can
slip
back
behind
above
that
level
and
that's
naturally
of
a
concern.
So
once
you
achieve
recovery
of
an
important
key
natural
resource,
you
have
to
keep
working
and
entertaining
that
recovery.
B
So
this
is
how
the
fishery
responded.
This
is
up
angler
cash
rate
in
the
open
water
month,
so
this
is
like
April
through
October
we're,
not
counting
the
ice
fishery.
Here
I
took
the
ice
fishery
out
of
it
just
because
this
is
a
more
consistently
surveyed
period.
This
is
information
we
have
as
a
result
of
our
creel
survey.
If
you're
a
fisherman,
you
spent
much
time
on
the
water,
its
chances
are
you've
maybe
been
interviewed
by
a
krill
clerk
at
some
point
who
asked
you
what
you
caught?
B
How
long
you
fished
that
kind
of
information,
and
that
goes
into
a
computer
program
along
with
partial
counts
that
are
done
by
flight?
We
fly
airplanes
periodically
over
survey,
gonna
bei
count
all
the
boats,
and
so
all
this
information
goes
in.
The
computer
program
allows
us
to
estimate,
harvest
and
angler
character
in
Gorky.
Actually,
it's
maybe
a
little
bit
more
telling
because
that's
really
a
reflection
of
the
quality
of
the
fishery.
This
is
how
fast
you're
getting
fish
per
hour
and
these
individual
care
traits
are
actually
diluted
them
across
all
fishermen.
B
So
if
you're
out
there
fishing
for
bass
or
perch
or
something
you're
factored
into
this,
if
we
took
just
the
fishermen
that
are
targeting
why
the
catch
rate
on
the
y-axis
would
be
even
greater,
but
this
is
useful
for
looking
at
how
it's
changed
over
time.
So
don't
worry
so
much
about
the
y-axis.
We
can
see
as
we've
achieved
recovery,
predictably,
the
catch
rate
or
how
fast
anglers
are
catching
Y
is
greatly
increased,
and
so
this
is
a
great
success
story.
B
So
let's
shift
gears
for
a
minute
and
talk
about
another
important
species.
Another
native
species,
eel
perch
in
Saginaw,
Bay
and
historically,
the
commercial
fisheries
and
the
recreational
fisheries
in
Saginaw
Bay
was
centered
around
walleye,
yellow
perch
and
then
some
other
species.
Wonderful
talk
about.
You
know
the
end
and
this
graph
now
we're
back
to
the
trawling
day
where
we
dragging
that
through
water.
B
That
catch
rate
here
is
how
many
for
10
minutes
of
towing
that
we
have-
and
this
is
all
your
perfect-
we
have
two
life
stages
here:
the
yellow
is
the
yoi
as
young
of
year
or
age
zero,
as
I
explained
earlier,
the
babies-
if
you
will
for
that
year
and
then
this
purple
color,
is
the
yearling
and
all
person.
That's
what
those
are
the
ones
that
were
interested
in
is
fishermen,
whether
a
recreational
fisherman
or
commercial
fisherman-
and
you
can
see
back
here
in
the
seventies
up
through
maybe
the
mid
90s.
B
We
have
lots
of
both
right.
So
you
know
about
the
babies
and
you've
got
lots
of
adults,
and
things
are
working
the
way
they
are
meant
to.
We
had
this
period
here
in
the
mid
nineties
when
we
didn't
have
much
and
that's
when
the
zebra
mussels
and
later
quagga
mussels
first
invaded
and
colonized
segment
Bay.
B
Here
is
2451
young
of
year
or
h0
yell
perch,
pretending
that
all
on
this
act,
this
exercise
goes
up
to
a
thousand,
so
the
height
of
that
might
actually
be
up
here
way
beyond
anything
that
we've
ever
seen
before.
Well,
that
wasn't
sustained,
but
it's
been
strong
ever
since,
so
we
have
lots
of
natural
reproduction
of
young
of
a
bill
perch
just
like
we
have
why.
B
But
if
you
look
you'll
see
that
we
don't
have
very
much
this
blue
or
purple
bar
whatever
this
color
is,
they
aren't
surviving
all
their
ages,
so
something's
gone
wrong
as
far
as
yellow
perch
were
concerned.
We
see
lots
of
young
ones.
We
don't
see
many
all
boys
well
and
the
scale
fishery
problems
they
have.
This
is
a
good
problem
because
we
have
them
in
the
system.
B
We
just
got
to
figure
out
how
to
get
them
to
survive
better
the
alternative
pollen
is,
they
live,
reproduce
at
all,
and
that's
of
course,
a
little
bit
harder
to
address.
But
that's
not
our
situation
here,
but
what's
going
on,
okay,
I
thought.
My
next
slide
will
explain
that
I'll
explain
this
one
though
I
think
we're
going
to
come
to
it.
This
is
the
trend
in
the
yellow,
perch
fishery,
so
that
the
phenomenon
I
was
just
describing.
B
You
can
see
that
the
harvest,
which
is
the
Green
Line
and
the
catch
rate
in
the
recreational
fishery,
is
the
souther
car
has
gone
down
steadily
over
time.
So
the
consequences
of
this
is
that
it's
being
reflected
and
officially
there
aren't
as
many
yellow
perch
being
caught.
You
know
and
interestingly,
participation
in
the
fishery
amount
of
fishing
effort
by
recreational
fishermen
has
followed
the
similar
trajectory
and
a
harvest
in
the
commercial
fishery
has
also
filed
a
similar,
similar
trajectory.
B
So
one
of
the
things
that
we're
discovering
is
even
the
way
of
walleye
recovery
and
some
of
the
best
walleye
fishing
in
North
America,
fewer
and
fewer
people
are
fishing.
The
Saginaw,
Bay
and
I
suspect
it's
because
of
this
trend.
Here
you
know:
perch
fishing
is
actually
probably
the
driving
force
behind
most
of
the
participation
in
the
bay
fishery.
We
hear
a
lot
about
walleye.
We
see
the
walleye
first
man,
it's
kind
of
a
high
profile
fishery,
but
quietly
behind
the
scenes
there,
the
perch
fisherman.
B
That's
where
we
recruit
kids
into
the
sport,
that's
paying
fish
most
people,
maybe
don't
have
the
expensive
boats.
You
go
out
and
invest
time
and
money
walleye
fishing,
but
they
will
go
out
perch
fishing
and
if
that
fishery
isn't
producing,
then
we
lose
participation
and
recruitment.
So,
there's
a
lot
of
consequences
for
having
a
poor
purchase
fishery.
B
This
is
the
prey
base.
Okay,
I
must
kind
of
included.
This
slide.
I
wanted
to
show
you.
It
was
a
walleye
diet
slide,
which
we
examine
the
stomach's
of
this
law
that
we
catch
in
our
gill
nets,
and
what
we've
discovered
is
that
since
L
Ives
disappeared,
we're
seeing
a
lot
more
young
Yelper.
So
where
are
these
perch
going
there
there?
So
we
see
them
as
young
ones.
B
We
don't
see,
was
a
gulf
they're
being
consumed
by
walleyes,
so
there's
something
broken
there
in
terms
of
a
mechanism
that
they
historically,
we
had
a
lot
of
walleye
annual
perch
and
now
we're
only
seeing
on
a
law
in
that
many
Yelpers
uzl
there's
something
that's
gone
wrong
and
I'll
touch
them
in,
and
we've
also
seen
that
reflected
in
our
overall
prey
base.
This
is
pounds
per
acre
of
our
forage.
Fish
is
indicated
by
our
trawl,
and
this
period
back
here
in
the
early
70s
was
actually
due
to
water
quality
problems.
B
You
can
see
how
low
it
was,
but
in
recent
years
you
can
see
how
it's
really
declined
and
we
believe
that
that's
from
heavy
predation
rates
from
the
abundant
wild
population,
so
the
walleye
have
been
been
breezing
down,
available
prey
base
and
part
of
that
has
been
the
own
perch,
and
so
everything
is
taking
it
on
the
chin.
If
you
love
from
the
super
abundant
walleye
population,
we
have
implemented
some
walleye
harvest
regulation
changes.
B
Also,
okay,
I
want
to
finish
up
by
talking
about
Cisco
Cisco,
my
teammate
Norman's
Lake
hearing
another
native
fish
that
lives
out,
mostly
in
the
main
base
and
historically,
and
then
they
use
segment
Bay
for
spawning
the
nursery
grounds.
Just
like
the
L
wives
dip,
the
difference
is
the
Cisco
come
in
in
the
fall
to
spawn
instead
of
spring,
so
they
don't
have
that
same
deleterious
effect
on
on
the
reproductive
success
of
walleye
and
perch,
another
native
species-
and
this
is
what
the
the
harvest
or
yield
rather
of
Lake
hearing
looked
like
in
Lake
Huron.
B
Most
of
this
was
from
saving
my
bait
going
all
the
way
back
to
nineteen
to
twelve
and
you're
gonna,
see
where
they
collapse
in
the
middle
part
of
the
20th
century.
The
way
so
many
of
our
fisheries
did
and
then
virtual
zero,
since
we
still
have
some
Cisco
in
Lake
Huron,
but
mostly
they're,
really
get
into
the
very
northernmost
reaches
of
the
lake
we're
over
in
the
Ontario
waters
of
the
North
Channel.
B
Is
that
there's
a
broken
linkage
between
the
bay
and
the
main
basin
that
historically
well
in
more
recent
years,
LIF
came
in,
improves
a
forged
buffer
so
that
our
wall
I
would
feed
on
them
instead
of
perched
and
before
our
lives,
it
was
Cisco
that
did
the
same
thing
now,
their
lives
were
gone,
Cisco
haven't
recovered
and
we
think
that's
why
we
have
this
perturbed
situation.
There's
no
reason
we
can't
have
both
abundant
walleye
and
perks.
B
Historically,
we
certainly
did
and
that's
what
we
want
to
get
back
to
so
what
we
are
partnering
on
our
agency,
along
with
US
Fish
and
Wildlife
Service,
and
some
others
is
a
culture
and
reintroduction
program
of
Cisco
into
nabe
and
proposed.
Are
the
stock
750,000
early-summer
fingerlings?
It's
about
a
two
inch
size
fish
in
out
of
Saginaw
Bay.
This
is
for
five
years
more
recently
we're
trying
to
commit
to
a
ten
year
stocking
program,
and
here
are
some
of
that.
B
You
can
read
these
bullets
if
you
want
to
in
terms
of
some
of
the
benefits
and
justification
for
it.
This
will
happen
as
planned,
the
first
plant
to
be
this
coming
spring
2018.
In
fact,
there's
gonna
be
a
small
fall
plant,
an
experimental
plant.
Yet
this
year
is
just
ten
thousand,
that's
more
of
an
experimental
thing
just
to
work
out
some
of
the
transport.
B
You
might
end
up
reading
about
it
in
the
paper,
but
the
main
big
plant
will
be
2018,
hopefully
every
year
after
that,
so
we're
gonna
see
what
these
can
survive
and
get
a
toehold
and
expand
that
population
we'll
see
if
they
have
the
desired
benefit,
not
only
that
Cisco
by
themselves
can
be
a
popular
game
fish
and
provide
for
some
commercial
opportunity.
So
there's
a
lot
of
benefits
from
seeing
this
native
species
restored
and
hopefully
it'll
benefit
ill
perch
and
further
diversify
our
prey.
Basin
like
hearing
sagem
abate
I,
think
they're
cool
I.
B
A
Thank
you
Dave.
Our
next
speaker
is
Brett
and
Joe
shoulders
month
and
he's
the
Lake
Huron
coordinator
for
Michigan's
office
of
the
Great
Lakes
has
a
Lake
Huron
coordinator.
He
works
with
federal
state,
provincial
tribal
and
local
partner
to
advance
efforts
to
meet
the
requirements
of
the
Great
Lakes
water
quality
agreement
and
his
work
focuses
on
helping
to
facilitate
and
coordinate
efforts
to
protect
and
restore
environmental
integrity
of
Lake
Huron.
A
C
Thank
you.
My
slides
up
I
have
a
couple
of
few
slides
when
I
go
through.
My
talk
here
will
be
kind
of
really
trying
to
the
presentation.
We
just
heard
want
to
talk
to
you
a
little
bit
about
a
reef
restoration
for
that
we
have
been
working
on
for
the
past
couple
years.
We
have
a
project
team
that
is
diverse
from
many
stakeholders,
including
a
lot
of
federal
state
and
local
partners.
Many
of
them
listed
up
here
on
the
bottom
of
the
slide,
as
I
mentioned
earlier
in
the
previous
presentation.
C
For
many
years,
I
mentioned
that
the
sanitation
rate
was
thought
to
be
prevent
reef
restoration.
That
was
until
we
had
some
modeling
work
that
was
done
as
a
part
of
a
multi-year
stretcher
project
that
was
led
by
NOAA
and
around
2010
lemonho--
tech
developed
a
a
model
for
sagan
of
a
that.
Looked
at
the
hydrodynamics
of
the
bay
looked
at
sedimentation
rates
as
part
of
their
work.
C
They
identified
that
some
of
the
nearshore
areas
and
that
the
deposition
in
the
nearest
nearshore
areas
may
actually
be
suitable
for
reef
restoration,
so
this
was
around
2010
really
around
2010
and
at
that
time
our
price.you
team
kind
of
came
together
realized
that
there
was
an
opportunity,
maybe
two
to
do
reef
restoration,
that
we
thought
it
was
time
to
really
explore.
You
can
see
if
we
can
make
some
movement
on
these
long-term
management
goals
that
we
had
so
and
around
2014.
C
So
in
2014
we
secured
funding
and
started
to
go
out
and
do
some
monitoring
of
the
bay.
That's
tragic
was
really
led
by
this
effort
was
led
by
Purdue
University
and
had
partners,
including
the
DNR
fisheries
division,
USGS
and
others.
I
know
I'm
missing,
forgetting
the
project
was
really
aiming
at
trying
to
address
a
couple
key
questions.
One
are
there
currently
spawning
fish
out
there
that
are
utilizing
some
of
the
remnant
reefs
that
are
out
in
saying
oh
babe?
Are
their
predators,
eye
predators
out
there
they
present
and
are
they
consuming
the
eggs?
C
Once
of
the
deposited,
this
seventh
Asian
still
a
problem,
and
if
we
were
to
pursue
reef
restoration,
would
our
reef
just
be
silted
in
by
excessive
sediment,
and
we
also
did
some
collection
of
water
quality
parameters,
dissolved
oxygen,
water
temperature
and
other
some
of
the
key
findings
that
we
came
out
to
really
boil
down
to
the
findings
that
are
up
here.
One
through
to
the
deployment
of
seven
traps.
C
We
were
able
to
determine
that
sedimentation
rites
appeared
to
be
suitable
for
reef
restoration,
that
the
rates
of
deposition
at
the
some
of
the
remnant
sites
and
our
proposed
restoration
sites
are
similar.
So
we
don't
think
that
if
we
were
to
install
a
reef
complex
that
it
would
just
get
silted
in,
we
also
did
have
with
the
presence
of
spawning
walleye
and
lake
whitefish
at
the
the
sites,
which
is
encouraging
that
those
strands
are
out
there
and
I'll
utilizing
degraded
sites,
and
we
did
see
evidence
of
predators.
C
A
B
C
This
point
these
are
proposed
sites
and
we
are
in
the
process
of
trying
to
pursue
money
to
try
to
get
implementation
at
these
two
reefs.
So
what
we're
really
trying
to
do?
What
this
rig
frustration
is
gonna,
hopefully
look
like
is
our
goal
would
be
to
to
place
about
four
thousand
cubic
meters
of
rock
material,
either
limestone
or
Briona
Kabul
at
each
site,
so
we'd
be
creating
about
a
one
acre
brief
at
the
two
sites
titute.
So
we
have
two
acres
in
total
and
what
we
really
have
main
goal
and
outcome
over
the
project.
C
It
really
boils
down
to
three
things:
this
really
late,
we're
looking
this
up
to
I
think
some
of
the
stuff
that
Dave
was
talking
about.
We
heard
that
the
walleye
fishery
is
robustness
can
come
back
to
a
point
where
the
recovery
targets
have
been
met.
However,
the
wallet
fishery
is
largely
sustained
by
River
based
reproduction,
and
this
has
left
walleye
fish
free.
While
it's
you
know
right
now,
an
amazing
fishery
has
left
it
vulnerable
to
external
stressors.
C
So
the
things
like
impoundments
and
climate
change,
extreme
weather
events
if
fishery
was
behind
just
on
1/2
height.
We
could
run
into
challenges
with
an
important
recreational
fishery.
The
fishery
has
been
estimated
at
being
close
to
a
33
million
dollar
fishery
per
year,
and
so
we
feel
like
it's
important
to
take
efforts
to
try
to
diversify
the
habitat
type,
diversify
the
type
of
the
strands
of
fish
they're
using
these
habitats,
so
that
we
can
keep
in
maintain
a
resilient
and
robust
walleye
population,
which
is
important
for
the
environment
and
important
for
the
local
economy.
C
We
also
soon,
as
projects
have
been
important
to
lake
whitefish
across
the
lake
huron
basin
lake
whitefish
recruitment
has
declined
in
most
most
areas
of
the
bay
of
the
lake,
except
for
from
the
area
taken
of
a
saving
of
a
is
still
the
main
area.
We're
like
wait.
Fish
are
being
recruited
out
to
the
main
basin
and
supporting
the
commercial
fishery
in
2015
the
lake
whitefish
fish
were
you
harvest
was
worth
two
point:
five
million
dollars.
C
So
we
see
this
project
helping
both
of
recreational
and
commercial
fisheries
and
can
help
to
protect
those
economies
and
the
resource.
Also,
as
Dave
mentioned
in
his
last
couple,
slides
who's
talking
about
the
reintroduction
of
Cisco
importance
of
diversifying
the
prey
base,
Cisco's
are
known
to
utilize
habitat
for
spawning,
and
so
with
this
recent
effort
to
reintroduced
Cisco
to
Seguin
obey
it's
a
perfect
time
for
us
to
try
to
go
through
and
provide
additional
habitat
for
the
Cisco's
to
utilize.
C
And
hopefully
we
can
help
support
the
reintroduction
of
the
species
into
into
saving
a
baby
which
will
help
to
diversify
the
prey
base,
hopefully
reduce
the
pressure
on
the
the
yellow
perch,
allowing
that
fish
reach
it
to
hopefully
rebound
and
pushing
the
the
prey
base
onto
a
more
native
form,
so
I
think
the
key
takeaways
for
our
project.
Why
we
want
to
do
this?
It
may
seem
weird
to
do
develop
a
habitat,
that's
for
a
fishery
that
is
a
robust
and
strong,
thriving
fishery.
C
C
Our
reef,
restoration
and
design
will,
if
we're
able
to
secure
some
funding
in
the
next
year
or
two
we'll
basically
take
some
lessons
learned
from
a
lot
of
the
work.
That's
been
done
in
Detroit,
st.
Clair
River
corridor
and
so
off
from
some
of
the
other
reef
restoration
projects
that
occurred
in
saving.
Oh
babe.
They
also
want
a
project
to
be
an
opportunity
for
us
to
to
learn
about
reef
restoration.
C
Our
project
is
unique
that,
from
those
restoration
projects
that
have
occurred
in
the
Detroit
River
system
that
we're
in
a
highly
productive
system
and
a
bay
environment,
it
makes
it
unique
than
some
of
the
other
restoration
efforts
that
have
occurred
across
the
Great
Lakes.
So
you
know
we
want
to
also
incorporate
a
post
construction
monitoring
that
would
basically
repeat
our
baseline
assessments.
So
we
can
take
that
information.
A
Thank
You
Bretton,
our
third
speaker,
is
Matt
Herbert,
he's
an
aquatic
ecologist
with
the
Michigan
chapter
of
the
Nature
Conservancy.
He
works
on
a
variety
of
conservation
projects
related
to
Great,
Lakes,
fisheries,
restoration,
aquatic
connectivity
for
migratory
fishes
and
watershed
River
conservation
and
restoration.
So
please
welcome
Matt
Herbert.
D
Thank
you,
so
I'm
gonna
talk
about
a
project
that
some
colleagues
and
I
have
been
working
on
to
prioritize
areas
for
Great,
Lakes
migratory
fish,
and
because
this
is
the
state
of
the
bay
conference
and
on
this
front,
there's
been
some
huge
successes.
Successes
in
this
region
over
the
last
decade
or
so
I'm
definitely
going
to
make
sure
to
highlight
the
past
successes
that
that
we've
seen
so
just
a
little
bit
of
background
migratory
fish
are
a
really
important
group
of
fishes.
D
There's
there's
a
lot
of
species
that
migrate,
most
people,
think
of
just
a
few
species
steelhead
and
salmon
and
walleye,
but
there's
a
there's
a
whole
suite
of
species
that
that
have
this.
Have
this
migration
up
into
Great
Lakes
tributaries?
There's
great
lakes
wide
there's
over
over
40
species
that
that
have
this
migration.
Many
of
them
are
important
game
species
such
as
such
as
walleye
white
bass,
yellow
perch,
northern
pike
and
even
even
suckers,
which
these
folks
at
the
Omer
soccer
festival
would
attest
to
these
fish
also
provide
really
important
ecosystem
services.
D
D
The
eggs
that
are
deposited
in
the
stream
are
very
important
for
resident
resident,
fish
and
invertebrates,
so
they
provide
really
important
services,
and
this
group
of
fish
also
has
a
lot
of
species
that
are
that
are
highly
imperiled
on
lake
sturgeon,
of
course,
are
really
important
in
our
region,
but
they're
they're,
quite
rare
Saginaw
Bay.
We've
generally
lost
them
for
many
decades,
even
though
there's
a
nice
effort
going
on
right
now
to
try
to
bring
them
back.
We
also.
This
is
the
greater
Red
Horse.
D
This
is
a
species,
that's
regionally
rare
Saginaw
Bay
has
the
some
of
the
best
populations
of
this
species
and
something
the
best
habits
had.
This
is
a
channel
darter,
channel,
darters
and
River
Tartars.
Both
are
species
that
occur
in
Saginaw
Bay
and
it's
tributaries
and
those
are
both
endangered
species
in
Michigan,
so
dams.
These
fish
migrate,
sub
dams
obviously
are
our
big
issue
for
for
these
species,
so
I'm
going
to
talk
a
lot
about
dams
throughout
this
presentation.
D
This
is
a
map
of
of
dams
throughout
the
second
abate
basin,
and
this
is
a
map
showing
hope
you
can
see
this.
You
can
see
along
the
shoreline.
There
are
blue
blue
areas,
those
represent
streams
that
are
currently
connected
to
the
Great
Lakes
and
then
all
of
the
gray
area,
in
between
our
streams
that
no
longer
are
connected
for
for
all
that,
for
that
whole
suite
of
migratory
fish,
you
can
see
huge
portions
of
the
Great
Lakes
region
are
not
accessible.
D
The
same
goes
for
Saginaw
Bay,
although
really
second
of
eight,
we
actually
have
a
lot
more
connectivity
than
then
much
of
the
Great
Lakes,
particularly
those
the
Lower
Peninsula,
so
the
objectives
of
the
project
that
we've
been
working
on.
We
are
reviewing
the
past
priorities
for
for
migratory
fish
and
highlight
those
and
the
successes
that
have
been
built
off
of
those
old
priorities.
Talking
about
some
of
the
new
information
that
we've
been
putting
together
to
develop
new
priorities,
compare
these
the
past
priorities
with
the
priorities
that
we've
been
putting
together.
D
So
first,
our
review
of
past
priorities
in
the
in
the
mid-2000s.
There
were
three
really
important
efforts
that
drove
a
lot
of
the
work.
That's
gone
on
a
sense
this
time
in
2004,
Dave,
Fielder
and
and
Jim
Baker,
put
together
a
report
on
walleye
recovery
in
Saginaw,
Bay
and
and
identified
tributaries
that
are
that
are
really
important
for
for
walleye
spawning,
and
then
public
sector
consultants
put
together
a
couple
of
different
reports.
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So
the
the
Fielder
and
Baker
report
focused
on
rivers
that
they
identified
the
castes,
Chippewa
Flint,
Pines,
Shiawassee
and
Tedder
Wasi
rivers
as
the
most
important
rivers
to
have
connectivity
for
walleye,
and
then
the
public
sector
reports
identify
dams
and
they
identified
the
Frankenmuth
dan
chesaning,
Dam
and
Dao
dam
is
the
most
important
for
fish
migrations
and
also
the
Mill
Pond
Dam
and
Mount
Pleasant.
The
Hamilton
dam
and
the
chesaning
gamma
is
most
important
for
infrastructure.
D
So
this
in
the
last
decade,
there's
been
some
pretty
incredible
work.
Basically
using
those
priorities
to
to
get
stuff
done,
the
chesaning
dam
has
come
out
and
been
replaced
with
a
with
a
rock
ramp.
The
Frankenmuth
dam
has
come
out
been
replaced
with
a
rock
ramp.
The
shayatin
dam
has
been
reconnected,
so
my
fish
can
migrate
past
that
and
the
Mill
Pond
and
has
come
out
and
there's
a
lot
of
other
efforts.
There's
a
nice
session
this
afternoon
that
talks
about
some
other
work.
That's
ongoing,
so
I'd
encourage
you
to
go
to
that.
D
If
you're
interested
in
this,
but
really
yeah,
this
is
a
pretty
remarkable
success
story.
It's
very
rare
that
you
do.
You
have
the
reports
like
this
come
out
with
priorities
really
ambitious
priorities
to
take
out
huge
barriers,
and,
ten
years
later
you
can
step
back
and
look
at
that
successes.
So
if
you
just
if
we
look
at
this
table,
Frankenmuth
dam
is
gone.
Mill
pen,
Mill,
Pond
Dam
is
gone,
chesaning
dam
is
gone,
Hamilton
dam
is
in
the
works.
D
There's
lots
of
really
good
momentum
going
on
in
that
the
only
one
that's
not
is
the
DAO
dam
and
there's
a
lot
of
complexities
around
that
and
there
there
certainly
has
been
a
lot
of
discussion
on
that.
So
there's
it's
not
as
if
there
hasn't
been
a
lot
of
work
on
it,
but
it's
just
very
complex,
so
lots
of
great
success.
D
But
where
do
we
go
from
here?
What
are
the
next?
What's
the
next
generation
of
priorities,
so
we,
my
colleagues
and
I,
have
been
working
on
a
couple
of
different
projects
at
a
great
lake
scale.
We've
we've
worked
on
a
project
where
we
are
prioritizing
tributaries
across
the
Great
Lakes
for
their
importance
for
migratory
fish,
and
we've
also
worked
on
this
fish
works
tool
with
the
University
of
Wisconsin,
which
that
focuses
specifically
on
barriers.
D
D
We
have
a
ton
of
data
over
30,
different
databases,
we've
put
together,
it's
a
massive
amount
of
processing
and
analysis,
but
in
the
end
we've
identified
priority
rivers
for
each
species
and
then
party
rivers
across
all
species-
and
this
is
what
this
looks
like
for
the
priority
rivers
across
all
species.
Now
remember,
I
showed
you
this
map
earlier
in
the
dark.
D
Blue
areas
are
streams
that
are
connected
to
the
Great
Lakes
and
all
the
gray
areas
are
streams
that
are
not
connected,
so
we
prioritized
separately
for
connected
streams
and
unconnected
streams,
because
what
you
would
do
in
those
areas
is
very
different
if
you're
connected
you're
looking
at
things
like
habitat,
restoration
or
habitat
protection,
if
you're
not
connected
you're,
not
going
to
achieve
anything
for
Great
Lakes
migratory
fish,
and
you
should,
unless
you
remove
barriers.
So
so
the
message
from
the
two
different
maps
is
very
different,
but
this
is
the
these
are
the
priority
areas
whoops.
D
These
are
the
priority
areas
for
the
connected
streams.
Then
these
are
the
priorities
for
the
unconnected.
So
what
this
looks
like
for
Saginaw
Bay
is
these
are
the
these?
Are
the
connected
priorities
in
Saginaw
Bay,
the
the
a
Great
River
is:
is
it's
reasonably
significant?
It's
it's
the
top.
It's
in
that
top
group
of
rivers
across
the
Great
Lakes,
but
also
also
way
up.
There
are
the
lightful
river,
the
lower
caste,
the
Saginaw
River,
the
the
to
Dubois
sea
and
the
lower
and
the
lower
Shiawassee,
so
so
reasonably
from
a
Great
Lakes
perspective.
D
Many
of
our
rivers
in
this
region
are
very
are
very
important,
and
these
are
remember.
These
are
all
connected
without
connected
rivers
for
our
unconnected
rivers.
The
tittle
Wasi
is
at
that
level
at
that
regionally
significant
level,
but
also
upstream
of
the
two
Dubois
see
the
in
the
Chippewa
and
the
pine.
Those
are
also
very
high-scoring,
as
is
the
the
lower
Shiawassee
and
the
cast
the
cast
River.
D
So
the
the
titov
Wasi
this
this
message
for
the
generosity-
that's
where
the
DAO
dam
is
Dao
dam
has
been
identified
as
a
priority
for
Saginaw
Bay,
but
really
for
even
from
a
Great
Lakes
perspective.
That
would
be
a
priority
barrier
to
to
take
out
or
to
at
least
at
least
provide
access
for
migratory
fish
and
then
the
Shiawassee
and
the
cast
this
just.
D
D
These
is
an
optimization
model
to
identify
a
best
suite
of
barriers
to
to
remove
what
I'm
going
to
show
you
is.
A
couple
of
scenarios
remain
for
Saginaw
Bay.
You
can
run
these
yourself
if
you
go
to
Great
Lakes
connectivity
org.
This
is
a.
This
is
an
online
tool
that's
available
to
mess
around
with,
but
what
it
does
is
it
basically
does
a
benefits.
Cost
analysis
with
the
benefits
being
the
miles
of
stream,
opened
up.
D
So
we
ran
a
couple
of
different
scenarios
for
saying
and
I
bathe.
What
you
do
is
you
basically
tell
it
how
much
money
you
have
available
and
then
run
a
scenario
for
that
amount
of
money?
So
we
chose
two
fairly
large
budgets.
We
had
a
ten
million
dollar
budget
and
a
five
million
dollar
budget.
We
ran
it
each
of
those
for
second,
our
baby.
We
got
pretty
similar
results
for
the
dams
that
were
selected
there
were.
There
were
five
more
damage
selected
in
the
ten
million
dollar
bucket.
D
So
for
the
most
part
they
were
they're,
pretty
similar
from
it
from
a
dam
perspective,
and
these
are
this
is
a
map
of
dams
that
were
selected
out
of
that
I.
Don't
have
time
to
like
go
into
individual
dams
or
anything.
So
this
is
just
a
broad
perspective,
so
so
the
next
person.
The
next
thing
we
wanted
to
do
is
compare
these
against
the
past
priorities.
So
I
showed
you
that
table
earlier.
D
This
is
basically
a
map
version
of
that
table,
so
the
the
blue,
all
the
blue
rivers
that
are
shown
here
are
the
Fielder
and
Baker
Wally
rivers
and
then
the
public
public
sector.
They
identified
those
three
main
dams,
the
DAO,
the
the
Frankenmuth
and
the
the
chesaning
dams,
but
they
looked
at
20
different
dams
that
they
knew
were
important,
that's
what
they
started
with
before
they
drilled
down
and
if
you
overlay
these
dams
with
with
the
dams
that
that
the
fish
works
tool
identified,
there's
a
ton
of
overlap
between
them.
D
D
We're
gonna
we'll
have
a
report
on
this
next
year
and
we'll
be
much
more
specific,
but
this
kind
of
can
summarize
is
basically
what
we
what
we
determined
based
on
our
analyses
and
the
discussions
that
we
had
so
first
of
all,
the
progress
on
this
front
has
been
very
impressive
and
we
definitely
will
make
sure
to
highlight
that
in
the
report
as
I
said
earlier,
you
know
it's
pretty
amazing.
What
has
been
done
over
the
last
10
to
15
years?
D
Some
examples
are
the
the
Cairo
dam
on
on
the
class
and
the
karana
on
the
on
the
Shiawassee
I
know
the
Kawana
diem
is
going
to
be
a
just
a
presentation
on
on
that
this
afternoon,
but
a
couple
of
things
that
came
up
is
that,
given
the
complexities
and
some
of
the
difficulties
and
kind
of
the
next
set
of
priorities,
we
do
need
to
start
turning
our
attention
towards
towards
smaller
structures
that
within
those
those
areas
that
are
connected
from
a
dam
perspective.
So
so
you
know
downstream.
D
You
know
some
of
those
connected
those
connected
main
streams,
some
of
the
small
tributaries
that
feed
into
those
have
small
low-head
dams.
On
them
or
road
stream
crossings
that
their
removal
could
help
a
lot
with
migratory
fish
and
then
the
other
thing
too,
is
is
habitat
improvement
in
these
areas,
where
that
are
connected.