Lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) distribution and status by HUC8

Aug 7, 2012 (Last modified Feb 18, 2022)
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Lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Ihssen, P.E., Evans, D.O., Christie, W.J., Reckahn, J.A. and DesJardine, R.L., 1981. Life history, morphology, and electrophoretic characteristics of five allopatric stocks of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in the Great Lakes region. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38: 1790-1807.

Rennie, M.D., Sprules, W.G. and Johnson, T.B., 2009. Factors affecting the growth and condition of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 2096-2108.

Bernatchez, L. and Dodson, J.J., 1985. Influence of temperature and current speed on the swimming capacity of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and cisco (C. artedii). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42: 1522-1529.

Taylor, W.W. and Freeberg, M.H., 1984. Effect of food abundance on larval lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis Mitchill, growth and survival. Journal of Fish Biology 25: 733-741.

Foote, C.J., Clayton, J.W., Lindsey, C.C. and Bodaly, R.A., 1992. Evolution of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in North America during the Pleistocene: evidence for a Nahanni glacial refuge race in the northern Cordillera region. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49: 760-768.
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US watershed boundaries from USGS - http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc.html, Canada watershed boundaries from Ministry on Sustainable Resource Management’s Fisheries Inventory Watershed Atlas - http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/gis/GISdata.html, Mexico fish distributions from Freshwater Fishes of Mexico (Miller and Minckley 2006), US fish distributions from each state's respective fish agency, Additional information may come from peer-reviewed literature, grey literature and agency reports, and scientific collection permit catch records
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