Lake Utopia rainbow smelt, large-bodied population (LURS-LbP) : updated abundance and genetic analyses.: Fs70-7/2024-031E-PDF
"Lake Utopia is part of the Magaguadavic River watershed in southwestern New Brunswick. The Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax) living in Lake Utopia (LURS) represent one of the only three confirmed occurrences in Canada of co-existing genetically divergent smelt populations. Two populations of smelt co-exist in the lake: the small-bodied population (SbP) and the large-bodied (LbP). The SbP has been protected under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) since 2003. The LbP was designated as Threatened by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC 2008) because it is one of a sympatric species pair, it is endemic to a single lake with a small index of area of occupancy (6 km²), it spawns in only three small streams, and it could quickly become extinct through degradation of spawning streams from increasing development around the lake shore and impacts of the dip-net fishery"--Context, page [1].
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| Department/Agency | Canada. Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Maritimes Region, issuing body. Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, issuing body. |
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| Title | Lake Utopia rainbow smelt, large-bodied population (LURS-LbP) : updated abundance and genetic analyses. |
| Variant title | Updated LURS abundance and genetic analyses |
| Series title | Science response, 1919-3769 ; 2024/031 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | "August 2024." Caption title. Issued also in French under title: Éperlan arc-en-ciel, population d'individus de grande taille du lac Utopia : mise à jour de l'abondance et analyses génétiques. Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-10). |
| Publishing information | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia : Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat : Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Maritimes Region, 2024. ©2024 |
| Description | 1 online resource (10 pages) : maps, graphs. |
| ISBN | 9780660725437 |
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| Subject terms | Rainbow smelt -- Population viability analysis -- New Brunswick. Rainbow smelt -- New Brunswick -- Genetics. |
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