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Blue Pike
Hello,
I'd like to put my 2 cents worth in here..... There are a couple of lakes
in my area where blue walleye can be caught...... whether or not they are
blue pike.... that could be another story..... but the lakes where they
occur are 1. up to 200-300 ft deep (and some huge fish show up on the sonar
at that depth.... but never caught one of whatever it is at that depth). 2.
Everywhere the blue walleye is caught, NO yellow walleye is found, period.
There is even one lake/river system separated into 3 parts by unnavigable
rapids. One section, pink walleye, another section, yellow walleye, and the
third section, blue walleye..... and guess where the deepest section is.....
yep... where the blue walleye are.
I hope that if DNA samples become available, that they become available to
check the fish up here.....
Allan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ellasoma at aol_com <Ellasoma at aol_com>
To: NFC at actwin_com <NFC at actwin_com>; schmi178 at tc_umn.edu
<schmi178 at tc_umn.edu>; tayers at bridge_com <tayers at bridge_com>
Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 2:46 PM
Subject: (no subject)
>
>Science turns to DNA to help in pike comeback
>
>Associated Press
>
>
>Biologists say they've mapped out a plan to restock two Great Lakes with a
>species of fish thought to have died out more than 20 years ago.
>
>Fisheries experts from the United States and Canada want to restore the
once-
>plentiful blue pike by isolating DNA from what they believe is a rare
specimen
>caught in 1989.
>
>They hope to match the DNA to what are thought to be other scarce blue pike
>still living in lakes in Minnesota and Canada, then reintroduce positively
>identified fish into Lakes Erie and Ontario.
>
>In what could prove to be the strangest breakthrough, DNA specialist Mary
>Burnham-Curtis hopes to cull genes from mucus on blue pike scales filed in
>envelopes half a century ago by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
>
>Blue pike flourished in Lake Erie at the turn of the century, becoming a
>favorite of anglers until overfishing pushed them to the brink of
extinction
>in the 1970s.
>
>Until now, scientists have had no way to positively determine whether a
blue-
>colored pike is a true blue pike or simply a blue-pigmented yellow pike,
said
>Dieter Busch, who heads the Lower Great Lakes Fishery Resources Office in
>Amherst, N.Y.
>
>He said the scientific world might have acted prematurely when it declared
the
>blue pike extinct in 1975, before DNA testing had been developed.
>
>His team must prove that blue pike still exist before it can proceed with a
>restocking program.
>
>The blue pike and yellow pike are both part of the perch family, but blue
pike
>prefer much deeper water -- 60 feet or more -- than yellow pike and feed on
>different prey.
>
>
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