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Table 3 Individual lake sturgeon detections by lake section, season, and year in Lake Erie (2016–2018)

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

Year

Tags at large

Season

Lake sections

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

2016

19

Pre-Spawning

18 (90.0%)

2 (10.0%)

0

0

0

0

0

  

Spawning

18 (58.1%)

13 (41.9%)

0

0

0

0

0

  

Summer

19 (55.9%)

15 (44.1%)

0

0

0

0

0

  

Fall

19 (65.5%)

10 (34.5%)

0

0

0

0

0

2017

53

Pre-Spawning

51 (68.9%)

21 (28.4%)

2 (2.7%)

0

0

0

0

  

Spawning

50 (58.8%)

35 (41.2%)

0

0

0

0

0

  

Summer

50 (53.2%)

43 (45.7%)

1 (1.1%)

0

0

0

0

  

Fall

51 (55.4%)

40 (43.5%)

1 (1.1%)

0

0

0

0

2018

56

Pre-Spawning

50 (82.0%)

6 (9.8%)

3 (4.9%)

1 (1.6%)

1 (1.6%)

0

0

  

Spawning

53 (76.8%)

8 (11.6%)

4 (5.8%)

1 (1.4%)

1 (1.4%)

1 (1.4%)

1 (1.4%)

  

Summer

52 (96.3%)

0

0

0

0

1 (1.9%)

1 (1.9%)

  

Fall

53 (63.9%)

27 (32.5%)

1 (1.2%)

 0

 0

1 (1.2%)

1 (1.2%)

  1. Both numbers and percentage of unique individuals within a lake section are presented. Total number of unique individuals across lake sections may be higher than the number of tagged fish at large as individuals could have been detected in multiple lake sections during a season