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Jul 16

Ciscoes: A Great Snack for Great Lakes Fish

A middle-of-the-food-web fish: Ciscoes were once abundant in the Great Lakes. But these native fish were depleted by overfishing, invasive species, and pollution. Ellen George, a grad student in the Cornell Department of Natural Resources, wants to see them come back. She says some of the invasive fish that replaced ciscoes in the food chain …

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Jul 03

A Fish Called Cisco

Lake herring are making a comeback in the Great Lakes. Listen up: Until the sixties, schools of slender silvery cisco swam the Great Lakes, feeding on zooplankton, and dodging predators. Fishermen called them ‘lake herring.’ “They were one of the most abundant species across the great lakes. And at one time they comprised the largest …

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Permanent link to this article: http://www.currentcast.org/sustainable-fisheries/a-fish-called-cisco/