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| Blue Pike (blue walleye) |
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| Name and Code |
| Family |
| Percidae - perches and darters |
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| Species |
| Sander vitreus glaucus |
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| Taxonomic Authority |
| Hubbs 1926 |
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| Common Name(s) |
| Blue Pike (blue walleye) |
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| Conservation Status |
| Global Rank (GRank) |
| G5TX (1996-09-25) |
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| National Rank (NRank) |
| NX (2013-01-03) |
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| Provincial Rank (SRank) |
| SX (1988-11-22) |
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| COSEWIC Status |
| Extinct (May 2000) |
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| AFS Status |
| Extinct (1,2,4) |
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| Ecological Value |
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| General Abundance |
| extinct |
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| Economic Importance |
| commercial fishery (historical) |
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| Habitat and Feeding |
| General Habitat(s) |
| lacustrine |
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| Environment |
| benthopelagic |
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| Trophic Class |
| invertivore/carnivore |
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| Habitat Preference |
| deep, cool, and slightly turbid waters over coarse substrates, usually below 12.2 m; preferred water temperature range 15-21°C |
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| Reproduction |
| Reproductive Guild |
| Nonguarders: Open substratum spawners: Litho-pelagophils |
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| Spawning Habitat(s) |
| lacustrine |
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| Spawning Temperature (°C) |
| 3-9 |
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| Nursery Habitat(s) |
| lacustrine |
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| Size and Age |
| Adult Length (cm) |
| 24.1-45.7 TL |
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| Adult Weight (kg) |
| 0.1-0.8 |
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| Age at Maturity (yrs) |
| 3 (m); 4 (f) |
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| Maximum Length (cm) |
| 67.1 TL |
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| Ontario Records |
| Record Length (cm) |
| 45.8 TL |
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Ontario Distribution |
| formerly occurred in Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the Niagara River; last reported from Lake Erie in 1965 |
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| Notes |
| subspecies of Walleye; more common in deeper, cooler eastern basin of Lake Erie; hybrids with Walleye called "greys" |
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| Information Sources |
| Campbell, R.R. 1987. Status of the Blue Walleye, Stizostedion vitreum glaucum, in Canada. Can. Field-Nat. 101(2):245-252. |
| Carlander, K.D. 1997. Handbook of freshwater fishery biology. Volume three. Life history data on Ichthyopercid and Percid fishes of the United States and Canada. Iowa State University Press. Ames, IA. xix + 397 pp. |
| Coad, B.W. with H. Waszczuk and I. Labignan. 1995. Encyclopedia of Canadian fishes. Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions. Ottawa and Waterdown, ON. viii + 928 pp. |
| Cooper, E.L. 1983. Fishes of Pennsylvania and the northeastern United States. Pennsylvania State University Press. University Park and London. vii + 243 pp. |
| COSEWIC. 2023. Canadian wildlife species at risk. October 2023. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Gatineau, QC. iv + 130 pp. |
| Cudmore-Vokey, B. and E.J. Crossman. 2000. Checklists of the fish fauna of the Laurentian Great Lakes and their connecting channels. Can. MS Rpt. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2550: v + 39 p. |
| Ditz, K. and E. Holm. 2023. Ontario Fish Species Codes and Names. Ichthyology and Herpetology, Royal Ontario Museum. May 1994. Modified February 2023. |
| Goodyear, C.S., T.A. Edsall, D.M. Ormsby Dempsey, G.D. Moss, and P.E. Polanski. 1982. Atlas of the spawning and nursery areas of Great Lakes fishes. Volume thirteen: Reproductive characteristics of Great Lakes fishes. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, DC. FWS/OBS-82/52. |
| Holm, E., N. Mandrak, and M. Burridge. 2021. A field guide to freshwater fishes of Ontario, second edition. Royal Ontario Museum Science Publication. Toronto, ON. 486 pp. |
| Hubbs, C.L. and K.F. Lagler. 1964. Fishes of the Great Lakes region. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor, MI. xv + 213 pp. |
| Hubbs, C.L., K.F. Lagler, and G.R. Smith. 2004. Fishes of the Great Lakes region, revised edition. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor, MI. xvii + 276 pp. |
| Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). 2023. On-line database. http://www.itis.gov, retrieved 02 May 2023. |
| Jelks, H.L., S.J. Walsh, N.M. Burkhead, S. Contreras-Balderas, E. Díaz-Pardo, D.A. Hendrickson, J. Lyons, N.E. Mandrak, F. McCormick, J.S. Nelson, S.P. Platania, B.A. Porter, C.B. Renaud, J. J. Schmitter-Soto, E.B. Taylor, and M.L. Warren, Jr. 2008. Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8):372-407. |
| Lee, D.S., C.R. Gilbert, C.H. Hocutt, R.E. Jenkins, D.E. McAllister, and J.R. Stauffer, Jr. 1980. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History Publication 1980-12. Raleigh, NC. x + 867 pp. |
| Mandrak, N.E. and E.J. Crossman. 1992. A checklist of Ontario freshwater fishes annotated with distribution maps. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publication. Toronto, ON. v + 176 pp. |
| McAllister, D.E., B.J. Parker, and P.M. McKee. 1985. Rare, endangered and extinct fishes in Canada. Syllogeus 54. National Museum of Natural Sciences. Ottawa, ON. 192 pp. |
| NatureServe. 2023. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available https://explorer.natureserve.org/ (Accessed: February 2, 2023). |
| Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR). 2013. Extinct, not at risk and data deficient species in Ontario list, 18 April 2013. |
| Scott, W.B. 1967. Freshwater fishes of eastern Canada, second edition. University of Toronto Press. Toronto, ON. xii + 137 pp. |
| Scott, W.B. and E.J. Crossman. 1973. Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 184. [1998 Reprint] Galt House Publications Ltd. Oakville, ON. xx + 966 pp. |
| Scharpf, C. 2008. Annotated checklist of North American freshwater fishes, including subspecies and undescribed forms. Part IV: Cottidae through Percidae. American Currents 34(4):1-43. |
| Smith, C.L. 1985. The inland fishes of New York State. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Albany, NY. xi + 522 pp. |
| Trautman, M.B. 1981. The fishes of Ohio with illustrated keys, revised edition. Ohio State University Press. Columbus, OH. xxv + 782 pp. |
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