Lake Roosevelt Fisheries Evaluation Program; Movements and Growth of Marked Walleye Recaptured in Lake Roosevelt, 2000-2001 Annual Report.

Abstract

Walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) have been marked with floy tags in Lake

Diel movement and home range estimation of Walleye (Sander vitreus) within a no-take urban fishery

“…Walleye (Sander vitreus) movement and distribution have been studied in rivers (Palmer et al 2005;Haxton et al 2015), shallow lakes/reservoirs (Forney 1963;Distefano and Hiebert 2000;McLellan and Scholz 2002;Foust and Haynes 2007), and the Laurentian Great Lakes (Brenden et al 2015;Hayden et al 2015). Understanding the movement and distribution of Walleye in different systems is important because they are one of the most sought after and managed species in North America.…”

“…Understanding the movement and distribution of Walleye in different systems is important because they are one of the most sought after and managed species in North America. Walleye have been documented to migrate extensively to spawning areas (Eschmeyer and Crowe 1955;Crowe 1962, Forney 1963Paragamian 1989;Distefano and Hiebert 2000;DePhilip et al 2005;Palmer et al 2005;Wang et al 2007;Clark-Kolaks 2009), and then return to a defined summer home range (Forney 1963;McLellan and Scholz 2002;DePhilip et al 2005;Palmer et al 2005;Weeks and Hansen 2009). Post spawning, Walleye movement is determined by food availability (DePhilip et al 2005;Foster and Drake 2013) and habitat characteristics such as light, water temperature (DePhilip et al 2005), and oxygen levels (Tango and Ringler 1996).…”