Seasonal depth and temperature use, and diel movements of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in a sub-Arctic lake

• Main Authors: Gallagher, Colin P., Guzzo, Matthew M., Dick, Terry A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/93565; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/AS-2017-0003

We conducted a multi-year acoustic telemetry study of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in a small sub-Arctic lake to investigate depth and temperature occupancy, and vertical activity across seasons (summer, fall, winter) and diel periods (day, twilight, night), and during summer periods of 24 h li...