What Are Coregonines? | Coregonine Fish Restoration The eleven species of coregonines recognized in the Great Lakes includes three “whitefishes” (Lake Whitefish, Round Whitefish, Pygmy Whitefish) and eight “ciscoes” (Longjaw Cisco, Deepwater Cisco, Blackfin Cisco, Shortnose Cisco, Shortjaw Cisco, Cisco, Bloater, Kiyi)
Coregonine Fish Restoration Among the coregonines, the ciscoes declined dramatically between the 1920s and 1970s, due to overfishing, invasive species, and habitat loss At least two species are now extinct and several species no longer occur in several lakes The whitefishes have been more resilient, but have been undergoing their own declines in the past 20 years
What Happened? | Coregonine Fish Restoration All coregonines (ciscoes and whitefishes) underwent large changes in abundance over the past century or so, but the greatest loss in diversity was for the “ciscoes”, which is a common name to characterize the eight different recognized species of more pelagic oriented coregonines that once occurred in the Great Lakes
Developing a Great Lakes-wide database of coregonine stocking This dataset is the result of coordinated efforts to compile data associated with stocking events for whitefishes and ciscoes (members of the Coregoninae subfamily) of Great Lakes origin The dataset includes more than 4,700 records associated with coregonine stocking, from over 150 information sources, spanning the years 1870 - 2022
Lake Erie | Coregonine Fish Restoration This dataset is the result of coordinated efforts to compile data associated with stocking events for whitefishes and ciscoes (members of the Coregoninae subfamily) of Great Lakes origin The dataset includes more than 4,700 records associated with coregonine
stocking | Coregonine Fish Restoration This dataset is the result of coordinated efforts to compile data associated with stocking events for whitefishes and ciscoes (members of the Coregoninae subfamily) of Great Lakes origin The dataset includes more than 4,700 records associated with coregonine
Kiyi C. Kiyi | Coregonine Fish Restoration This dataset is the result of coordinated efforts to compile data associated with stocking events for whitefishes and ciscoes (members of the Coregoninae subfamily) of Great Lakes origin The dataset includes more than 4,700 records associated with coregonine
Bloater C. hoyi | Coregonine Fish Restoration This dataset is the result of coordinated efforts to compile data associated with stocking events for whitefishes and ciscoes (members of the Coregoninae subfamily) of Great Lakes origin The dataset includes more than 4,700 records associated with coregonine
Planning | Coregonine Fish Restoration Cisco (Coregonus artedi) was once one of the most abundant pelagic fishes in Lake Huron (Koelz 1929), supporting a large fishery in Saginaw Bay throughout the early 1900s (GLFC 2022, Rook et al 2024)
Developing a high throughput method to genotype coregonines at a . . . Second, the species identification GT-seq panel has been shown to work in a wide range of related species beyond the ciscoes for which it was designed, such as lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and round pygmy whitefishes (Prosopium cylindraceum P coulterii)