Ever wondered how fish spend the winter? Using new technology, researchers from the University of Toronto Mississauga have taken a peek beneath the winter ice to reveal surprising new information about aquatic environments in winter.
Ever wondered how fish spend the winter? Using new technology, researchers from the University of Toronto Mississauga have taken a peek beneath the winter ice to reveal surprising new information about aquatic environments in winter.
"It was a 'Eureka!' moment," says Bailey McMeans, an assistant professor of biology, of the data that confirmed lake trout were moving into the territory of other fish over the winter months.
McMeans is an aquatic ecologist studying freshwater fish at the Harkness Laboratory of Fisheries Research on Lake Opeongo in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park. New research from her lab, co-authored with PhD student Timothy Fernandes, reveals for the first time that fish behaviour in winter is radically different from that observed during the summer months.
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Photo: Researchers from the McMeans Lab at U of T Mississauga pose for a photo at the Algonquin Park research station. CREDIT: Bailey McMeans
