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Table 1 Sampling dates, number of net sets, number of lake sturgeon captured, and catch per unit effort (number per net hour) of spring lake sturgeon gillnetting between 2014 and 2018 in the Buffalo Harbor area

From: Large- and small-scale movement and distribution of acoustically tagged lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in eastern Lake Erie

Year

Sampling dates

No. net sets

Female

Male

Unknown

Grand total

CPUE

2014

May 15–June 12

22

2 (0)

30 (1)

11 (0)

43 (1)

0.71

2015

May 18–June 12

39

2 (2)

20 (16)

0 (0)

22 (18)

0.19

2016

May 9–June 1

52

1 (1)

33 (30)

3 (3)

37 (34)

0.36

2017

May 9–June 13

32

4 (4)

31 (0)

1 (0)

36 (4)

0.26

2018

May 15–June 7

24

3 (2)

31 (0)

2 (0)

36 (2)

0.42

  1. The number of lake sturgeon implanted with acoustic transmitters within each year are presented in parentheses. Morphometric data can be found in Additional file 2: Table S2