GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE
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Recruitment, especially from wild;
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Consumption and conversion efficiency rates;
especially in winter;
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Site-specific post-stocking survival;
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Consequences of prey limitation:
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on recruitment rates;
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disease (BKD);
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nutrition (EMS).
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Great Lakes fish communities have changed since the 1960s when alewives were overabundant and surplus production wind rowed on the beaches.
Now surplus production is pretty well tapped by a variety of predators.