The Pygmy Whitefish, Coregonus Coulteri, in Lake Superior

• Main Authors: Eschmeyer, Paul H., Bailey, Reeve M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 1955
• Subjects: Natural Resources and Environment; Science; Fish Point; Prosopium coulteri; Pygmy whitefish
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/141996; https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1954)84[161:TPWCCI]2.0.CO;2

Bottom trawling by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service motor vessel Cisco in Lake Superior in 1952–1953 revealed a large population of a tiny whitefish, Coregonus (Prosopium) coulteri, which has been reported previously only from northwestern North America. The hiatus in range, from Lake Superior to...