Great Lakes Restoration: Success Through Science. U.S. Geological Survey Accomplishments 2010 Through 2013

摘要

The USGS and partners are supporting restoration and enhancement of native fish habitat and populations in the Huron-Erie Corridor as part of the GLRI. The USGS and Huron-Erie Corridor Initiative partners are developing science-based adaptive management strategies to help restore habitats and native fish in the corridor, ultimately providing societal, economic, and environmental benefits to the Great Lakes region. Adaptive management is a systematic approach for improving resource management by learning from management outcomes. Guided by a science-driven adaptive management framework, researchers are identifying, assessing, and prioritizing sites for fish spawning habitat construction and fish and nursery habitat restoration to address beneficial use impairments (BUIs) in the Detroit River and St. Clair River Areas of Concern and to help define what constitutes adequate restoration in the Areas of Concern. A BUI is a change in the chemical, physical, or biological integrity of the Great Lakes system sufficient to cause any of 14 use impairments Restoration of functional spawning habitat in the Huron-Erie Corridor is critical to allowing fish populations to reproduce and maintain sustainable populations of sport and commercial fish.