Northern pike (Esox lucius) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 28, 2011 (Last modified Feb 9, 2022)
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Northern pike (Esox lucius) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Sepulveda, A.J., Rutz, D.S., Ivey, S.S., Dunker, K.J. and Gross, J.A., 2013. Introduced northern pike predation on salmonids in southcentral Alaska. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 22: 268-279.

Jalbert, C.S., Falke, J.A., López, J.A., Dunker, K.J., Sepulveda, A.J. and Westley, P.A., 2021. Vulnerability of Pacific salmon to invasion of northern pike (Esox lucius) in Southcentral Alaska. PloS one 16: e0254097.

Courtney, M.B., Schoen, E.R., Wizik, A. and Westley, P.A., 2018. Quantifying the net benefits of suppression: truncated size structure and consumption of native salmonids by invasive Northern Pike in an Alaska lake. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 38: 1306-1315.

McMahon, T.E. and Bennett, D.H., 1996. Walleye and northern pike: boost or bane to northwest fisheries?. Fisheries 21: 6-13.

Zelasko, K.A., Bestgen, K.R., Hawkins, J.A. and White, G.C., 2016. Evaluation of a long-term predator removal program: abundance and population dynamics of invasive northern pike in the Yampa River, Colorado. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 145: 1153-1170.

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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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