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Homing Behavior in Walleyes
Author(s) -
Crowe Walter R.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1962)91[350:hbiw]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - netting , homing (biology) , bay , fishery , geography , biology , ecology , archaeology , political science , law
Records obtained from the Muskegon River system, the Inland Waterway, and Bay de Noc in northern Lake Michigan indicate that walleyes return to the same spawning areas year after year. Walleyes were tagged and released during the spawning period at several locations. Where netting was repeated in subsequent years many tagged walleyes were recaptured at the locations where they were tagged previously. Walleyes which were tagged and released at sites where netting was not repeated were not recaptured at other locations. The return of tagged walleyes to areas where they had been in previous seasons and the scarcity of tagged walleyes from other areas provide strong evidence for homing behavior by this species.