Evaluation of Diets from Adult Cisco in Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan

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Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Report 32 2020 Evaluation of Diets from Adult Cisco in Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan Annalise M. Povolo, David F. Clapp, and Jory L. Jonas Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station, 96 Grant Street, Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Randall M. Claramunt Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Oden State Fish Hatchery, 8258 S. Ayr Road, Alanson, Michigan 49706 Abstract.–The lack of information on Cisco Coregonus artedi diet creates a knowledge gap that limits fisheries managers’ ability to understand energy transfer in the rapidly changing Lake Michigan ecosystem. In order to examine diet and determine what niche Cisco inhabit in the food web of Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan, we sampled Cisco in June, September, and October of 2014 at sites located near Elk Rapids. Diet analysis revealed that Cisco consume predominantly Round Goby Neogobius melanostomus and Diptera Chironomidae pupa in the spring and Alewives Alosa pseudoharengus and spiny waterfleas Bythotrephes longimanus in the fall. The almost exclusive consumption of these prey items in their respective seasons suggests that a feeding shift from benthic to pelagic prey items exists in Cisco foraging from spring to fall. This diet shift indicates that Cisco may provide a linkage between benthic prey items and pelagic piscivores. Abundance of prey items that were not historically present in their diet suggests that Cisco may have adapted their feeding strategy to food web changes and integrated into the contemporary fish community that exists in Grand Traverse Bay. Fisheries managers should consider Cisco rehabilitation as a potential tool for restoring food web pathways in Lake Michigan. However, efforts at rehabilitation must be continued with the understanding that the prey composition is predominantly nonnative, and that new pathways of energy transfer will require Cisco stocks that can adapt to ongoing ecosystem changes. 1.

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