OCAFS Fisheries Research

From time to time OCAFS members collaborate and participate in fisheries research studies. Please contact an OCAFS Officer if you have an idea about OCAFS members participating in a sponsored study.

Yellow Perch Hooking Mortality Study - This study is under consideration for completion after the conclusion of the summer 2006 meeting at Put-in-Bay.

Bottom Trawl Standardization Study on Lake Erie 

Project Leader: Carey Knight
Dates: Aug 25-29, 2003

Objective:  To generate fishing power corrections to facilitate direct comparison of OMNR, ODNR-Wildlife and USGS bottom trawl catches on Lake Erie.  Fishing power corrections must also be calculated between the Gibraltar (the “old” Explorer) and the “new” Explorer to facilitate the use of a single time series for the two Ohio Division of Wildlife vessels. NOTE:  The goal was to minimize any external factors that may influence catch composition between the 4 vessels.  Such factors include date, time of day, substrate, species composition, etc.  Fishing attributes (trawl design, trawl speed, warp angle, etc.) followed the establishment of interagency trawling protocols (1986). 

Research Project Protocol and Results (PDF)

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