Fish community responses to climate change in the Midwest

Project Objectives:

1) Develop statistical models of the relative abundance of multiple fish species throughout the Upper Midwestern United States.

2) Quantify relationships between environmental conditions, species interactions, and the abundance and recruitment of managed fish.

3) Predict abundance and recruitment of multiple fish species under future scenarios of climate change.

4) Identify and communicate priority lakes for implementing habitat protection and restoration actions.

Map of study region with dots representing lakes that have contributed data to our study. Darker blue dots are lakes with more fish catch and effort data.

Lakes that we have received fish data for

  • lakes with fish catch and effort data are shown as blue dots

  • darker colored dots represent lakes with more data