Lake Erie Committee - Forage Task Group

The Forage Task Group (FTG) consists of fisheries scientists from state, provincial, federal and university agencies conducting research on Lake Erie. The FTG is a sub-committee of the Lake Erie Committee (LEC), appointed by the LEC and addressing charges from the LEC relevant to forage fish issues/management in Lakes Erie and St. Clair and connecting waters.

• Charges
• Members (Last updated: April 2010)
• Publications and Products
• Terms of Reference (pdf, revised April 2011)
  

Charges

The following are the charges to the FTG for the 2010-2011 work year:

1. Continue to describe the status and trends of forage fish and invertebrates in each basin of Lake Erie.
   
2. Continue the development of an experimental design to facilitate forage fish assessment and standardized interagency reporting.
   
3. Continue hydroacoustic assessment of the pelagic forage fish community in Lake Erie, incorporating new methods in survey design and analysis while following the GLFC’s Great Lakes Hydroacoustic Standard Operating Procedures where possible/feasible.
   
4. Continue the interagency lower-trophic food web monitoring program to produce annual indices of trophic conditions which will be included with the annual description of forage status.
   

Members

Eric Weimer (ODNR), Co-chair
Mike Hosack (PFBC), Co-chair
Patrick Kocovsky (USGS)
John Deller, (ODNR)
Bob Haas (MDNRE)
Jim Markham (NYSDEC)
Betsy Trometer (USFWS)
Larry Witzel, Tom MacDougall (OMNR)
Dr. Alicia Perez-Fuentetaja (SUNY – Buffalo)

Publications and Products

Annual Reports

• 2012
• 2012 Executive Summary
• 2011
• 2011 Executive Summary
• 2010
• 2010 Executive Summary
• 2009
• 2009 Executive Summary
• 2008
• 2008 Executive Summary
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001

Other Reports and Documents

• Acoustics SOP (in development)
• Herring Management Plan (in development)
  

updated 23 May 2007

Photo: American Fisheries Society