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The longest fish in Lake Erie is reportedly the sturgeon which can grow to 10 feet (3.0 m) long and weight 300 pounds (140 kg), but it is an endangered species and mostly lives on the bottom of the lake. [118]
The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), also known as the rock sturgeon, [7] is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of sturgeon. Like other sturgeons, this species is a bottom feeder and has a partly cartilaginous skeleton, an overall streamlined shape, and skin bearing rows of bony plates on the sides and back.
Find the water level forecasts for Lake Erie from the U.S. Army Corps for the next five months. Lake Erie was at record levels in 2019. Where things stand, and a forecast, 5 years later.
Recent lake levels include record low levels in 2013 in Lakes Superior, Erie, and Michigan-Huron, [37] followed by record high levels in 2020 [38] in the same lakes. The water level in Lake Ontario has remained relatively constant in the same time period, hovering around the historical average level.
With Lake Erie having nearly 10,000 square miles of surface water, it’s difficult to guess what may show up next. The reality is if it’s an invasive species, like an alligator or piranha ...
The drum typically weighs 5–15 lb (2.3–6.8 kg). The world record was caught on Nickajack Lake in Tennessee, and weighed in at 54 lb 8 oz (24.7 kg). [12] The freshwater drum is frequently gray or silvery but may be more bronze or brown colored, common in the Lake Erie population.
The population of lake sturgeon in the Winnebago System (lakes Winnebago, Butte des Morts, Poygan and Winneconne and the Fox and Wolf rivers) numbers about 35,000 adult fish and is among the ...
Kelleys Island is both a village in Erie County, Ohio, and the island which it fully occupies in Lake Erie.The island has a total area of 4.41 square miles (11.42 km 2) and was formed by glacial action on limestone and dolomite.