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Diet, growth and bioenergetics of Northern Pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758) in Box Canyon Reservoir, Pend Oreille River, Washington

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Title	Diet, growth and bioenergetics of Northern Pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758) in Box Canyon Reservoir, Pend Oreille River, Washington
Subject	Pike--Food--Washington (State)--Box Canyon Reservoir; Pike--Physiology--Washington (State)--Box Canyon Reservoir; Bioenergetics--Washington (State)--Box Canyon Reservoir; Pike--Washington (State)--Box Canyon Reservoir
Creator	Harvey, Shane Joseph
Publisher	Published by Eastern Washington University Libraries. 816 F St. Cheney, WA 99004-2453. http://www.ewu.edu/library.xml
Date	2011
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Original format: MS Word.docx
Language	eng
Rights	The author retains all ownership rights to the copyright to this Master’s Thesis. Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes, and with proper attribution given to the author. The content of this thesis shall not be used for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, without the permission of the author.
Provenance	Received from the EWU Graduate Studies Office.
Description-Table Of Contents	Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Methods and Material -- Results - Discussion -- Literature cited -- Appendix A.
Description-Abstract	"The objectives of this study were to describe the growth of northern pike, describe the food habits of northern pike and using bioenergetics modeling assess the mass and total numbers of each species of forage fish the northern pike population consumed in Box Canyon Reservoir, Pend Orielle River, Washington. Northern pike (n=328) were collected by boat electrofishing, fyke netting, angling and gillnetting in 2009 and 2010. All northern pike were sacrificed to obtain stomach contents. Stomach contents were examined in the laboratory and identified to the appropriate level; amphibians and mammals to species, insect prey (aquatic/terrestrial) to family and prey fish to species. Using standard regression equations from Hansel et al. (1988) and those developed for the EWU bone reference collection the length of ingested prey items at time of ingestion were estimated. A standard set of regression equations were then used to convert the estimated length of forage fish to estimate their weight at time of ingestion. Cliethra and scales were used to age and back-calculate growth of 130 northern pike in Box Canyon Reservoir collected in 2009. The mean length of each age cohort at time of capture was: age 0+ (n=2, 268 mm ±12), age1+ (n=7, 281mm ± 34), age 2+ (n=18, 367 mm ±58), age3+ (n=16, 445 mm ±57), age 4+ (n=17, 634 mm ±70), age 5+ (n=40, 695 mm ±64), age 6+ (n=15, 780 mm ±60), age 7+ (n=10, 868 mm ±38), age 8+ (n=4, 978 mm ±56) and age 9+ (n=1, 1110 mm). Total length at annulus formation back calculated from scales were: age 1 (210 mm TL), age 2 (293 mm TL), age 3 (390 mm TL), age 4 (501 mm TL), age 5 (603 mm TL), age 6 (701 mm TL), age 7(803 mm TL), age 8 (934 mm TL) and age 9 (1059 mm TL). Mean relative weights for Box Canyon northern pike was slightly below the national average for age 0 to age 3 (95 ±17) and at or above the national average for age 4 to age 9 (110 ±14). Fulton type condition index ranged from 0.27 to 1.00, with the national range of 0.47 to 0.69 (Carlander 1969). The total population size was estimated at 5435 (±616, C=0.137) northern pike in Box Canyon Reservoir. It was estimated that 293 (5.3%) of pike ranged in length from 220 mm to 295 mm, 627 (11.5%) of pike ranged in length from 296 mm to 380 mm, 710 (13.0%) of pike ranged in length from 381 mm to 485 mm, 334 (6.1%) of pike ranged in length from 486 mm to 585 mm, 1337 (24.6%) of pike ranged in length from 586 mm to 695 mm, 1212 (22.3%) of pike ranged in length from 696 mm to 800 mm, 668 (12.3%) of pike ranged in length from 801 mm to 900 mm, 167 (3.0%) of pike ranged in size from 901 mm to 1005 mm, 84 (1.5%) of pike ranged in length from 1006 mm to 1110 mm. Quantitative description of food habits included the total number, frequency of occurrence, percent composition by number, total weight, percent composition by weight and relative importance index for prey items consumed by northern pike in Box Canyon Reservoir. When comparing the food habits of reach two and reach three there was no difference in the percent composition by number (p value 0.253) and percent composition by weight (p value 0.688). There was a difference in the frequency of occurrence (p value 0.026) this was attributed to the consumption of trout and brown bullhead in reach two. Identifiable prey organisms included 12 species of fish, bull frogs and one mountain vole. Prey fish comprising the diet of northern pike in order of relative importance were: 1) Yellow Perch (Perca flavens) occurred in 44.8% of stomachs and comprised 50.9% by number, 25.1% by weight and 39.4% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 2) Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) occurred in 30.3% of stomachs and comprised 26.6% by number, 10.9% by weight and 22.1% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 3) Peamouth (Mylocheilus caurinus) occurred in 9.8% of stomachs and comprised 6.9% by number, 19.3% by weight and 11.7% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 4) Largescale sucker (Catostomus macrocheilus) occurred in 4.4% of stomachs and comprised 4.4% by number, 25.5% by weight and 11.2% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 5) Bass (Micropertus spp,) occurred in 6.0% of stomachs and comprised 3.7% by number, 1.6% by weight and 3.7% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 6) Northern pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus oregonensis) occurred in 2.4% of stomachs and comprised 1.4% by number, 4.1% by weight and 2.6% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 7) Mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) occurred in 2.0% of stomachs and comprised 1.3% by number, 4.2% by weight and 2.4% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 8) Tench (Tinca tinca) occurred in 1.7% of stomachs and comprised 1.2% by number, 3.7% by weight and 2.1% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 9) Northern pike (Esox lucius) occurred in 1.3% of stomachs and comprised 0.81% by number, 4.0% by weight and 2.0% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 10) Brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) occurred in 0.9% of stomachs and comprised 0.5% by number, 0.4% by weight and 0.6% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 11) Eastern brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) occurred in 0.5% of stomachs and comprised 0.3% by number, 0.2% by weight and 0.3% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. 12) Brown trout (Salmo trutta) occurred in 0.2% of stomachs and comprised 0.13% by number, 0.2% by weight and 0.2% by relative importance of prey items in the diet. Wisconsin Bioenergetics Model 3.0 estimated that northern pike consumed 7,940 Kg of fish flesh or 163,060 prey fish between May 2010 and October 2010. It was estimated that 296 mm to 380 mm pike consumed 49.9 Kg of fish flesh or 26,199 prey fish, 380 mm to 485 pike consumed 52.0 Kg of fish flesh or 29,275 prey fish, 486 mm to 585mm pike consumed 30.3 Kg of fish flesh or 12,195 prey fish, 586 mm to 695 mm pike consumed 184.6 Kg of fish flesh or 43,346 prey fish, 696 mm to 800 mm pike consumed 166.4 Kg of fish flesh or 34,051 prey fish, 801 mm to 900 mm pike consumed 153.3 Kg or 14,668 prey fish, 901 mm to 1005 mm pike consumed 58.5 Kg of fish flesh or 803 prey fish and 1006 mm to 1110 mm pike were not modeled due to the small sample size."--Document.
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