Efforts are underway to determine if a lost native species of fish in Lake Erie can be reintroduced from its descendants that have been found on the opposite side of Pennsylvania.
Doug Fischer, nongame fisheries biologist and ichthyologist for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, is one of several biologists investigating the shallow-water strain of ciscoes that’s been missing from Lake Erie for about 65 years.
Ciscoes, a member of the trout family, were extirpated from Lake Erie in the 1950s or early 1960s. However in 2016, the agency’s biologists found a strain of the shallow-water ciscoes descending from Lake Erie thriving in a pristine private lake in northeastern Pennsylvania…