Fish projects: Alewives and Rudd

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Dr. Randy Snyder has done numerous studies of fish using the fish lab at the Field Station.

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Dr. Snyder studies alewives, an non-native fish from the Atlantic that has adapted to living in the Great Lakes. Alewives were likely present in Lake Ontario for a long time, but invaded the upper Great Lakes in the 1800s after the construction of the Welland Canal.

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Dr. Snyder measures an alewife.

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Other researchers use our tanks from time to time, like for this Rudd diet experiment by researchers from SUNY ESF.

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Rudd diet experiment, testing which submerged aquatic vegetation is preferred by rudd, an invasive fish.

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Weighing vegetation used in the rudd diet experiment.