Lake Michigan perch grow more slowly than others Population decline may be due to their longer vulnerability to predators

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | July 12, 1997| | Copyright

One possible reason for the dwindling population of Lake Michigan yellow perch and their total absence from Friday fish fries is that they grow slower after hatching than their cousins from other places and therefore remain vulnerable longer to predators, says a scientist who is watching them grow in a laboratory.

"Lake Michigan perch larvae are not growing as fast through their first three weeks of life as the perch from Lake Ontario, Green Bay and Lake Mendota," said Fred Binkowski, a senior scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Center for Great Lakes Studies.

Binkowski ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Ben-Eliezer: We believe kidnapped soldiers are alive
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ; ...ARIEH O'SULLIVAN and DAVID RUDGE, Greer Fay Cashman...05-2001 Headline: Ben-Eliezer: We believe...ARIEH O'SULLIVAN and DAVID RUDGE, Greer Fay Cashman...Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said over the...Secretary-General Kofi Anan for ordering the inquiry...
A Short History of the Karaites
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ; ...synagogue which they named after Anan ben David, the traditional founder of Karaism...according to its plain meaning. Anan ben David, a well-known Babylonian scholar...Karaites originated separately from Anan ben David and his followers, and only in...
Different Rendition
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ; ...built by the tradition's founder, Anan ben David, after he fled from Babylonia to...synagogue in the late 13th century. The Anan synagogue remains a testament to...before entering, according to Haggai Ben-Shammai, Director of the Ben Zvi...
True Believers
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ; ...had heard her grandmother tell of Anan Ben- David, the eighth-century founder of...tombstones are marked with a Star of David and the names are written in Hebrew...compared it to Chufut-Kale, where Anan Ben-David was said to have built another synagogue...
O brother...
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ; ...Historians usually attribute the founding of Karaism to Anan ben David, an eighth-century Babylonian Jew who opposed the hegemony...Babylonian Talmud and the tradition of the Oral Law. Anan believed that Jewish law must follow the strict meaning...
The Body as Storyteller: Karaite Women's Experience of Blood and Milk
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore ; ...common era, to the political-religious rift between Anan Ben David and mainstream Rabbinic Judaism concerning the authority...the Karaite need for "formation and differentiation" (Ben-Sasson 1950). Today it is this extraordinary balance...
Ozick Returns, Still Aflush With Ideas; Heir to the Glimmering World
Newspaper article from: Forward ; ...and esoteric apostates and subverters of received wisdom are "as dear to [Rudi] as his children": men like Anan ben David, Salmon ben Jeroham and especially Jacob al-Kirkisani, who declared that God Himself is a heretic since He disbelieves...
EDGE OF TOWN: Karaites, Come Home; One of the Ten Lost Tribes has continuity problems, too.
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week ; ...observance is not as high a value among Karaites, as it is among the denominationally fractured mainstream Jews. Anan Ben-David, perhaps the most revered Karaite Hacham (wise man), used to teach, "Search thoroughly in the Torah and do not...
A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly ; ...Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic covers the following sources: Babylonian Talmud, Geonic writings, the works of Anan ben David (the forerunner of Karaism), incantation bowls and magical texts, Masoretic texts, and varia. After a twelve...
Karaites mourn their victim
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ; ...provision; since its founding in the eighth century CE by Anan Ben-David, the sect has alternately faced harsh condemnation...imagery of the 10 commandments, menorot, and Stars of David. And similar to Orthodox tradition, the hall is for...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Lake Michigan perch grow more slowly than others ..."