Changes in the fish community of a limed
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J. M. Gunn; M. J. McMurtry; J. M. Casselman; W. Keller; M. J. Powell
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Article
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1988
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Nelson Lake, a moderately acidic (pH 5.7), metal-contaminated (Cu 22 ug L-l; Zn 18 ug L -I) lake, 28 km from the smelters at Sudbury, had a degraded fish community in the early 1970's, with lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) scarce, smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) extinct, and the littoral zo