Spawning habitat in the eastern basin of lake ontario is a limiting resource for numerous native fish species, including, but not limited to, lake sturgeon (acipenser fulvescens), walleye (sander…

The Finger Lakes Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance will restore approximately two acres of spawning habitat in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario under a $712,621 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Working with partners including the Service, U.S. Geological Survey and New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the Alliance will place spawning bed material in the Black River mouth and Chaumont Bay. The project aims to benefit native fish species through habitat restoration, consistent with the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's priority of protecting and restoring habitat and species in the Great Lakes basin. Project implementation is scheduled from summer 2022 through fall 2022. The primary recipient of the cooperative agreement is the Oswego County Soil & Water Conservation District.

Spawning habitat in the eastern basin of lake ontario is a limiting resource for numerous native fish species, including, but not limited to, lake sturgeon (acipenser fulvescens), walleye (sander vitreus), lake trout (salvelinus namaycush) and ciscos (coregonus SPP.). Implementing this project will restore spawning habitat in the eastern basin of lake ontario. Finger lakes lake ontario watershed protections alliance, working with numerous partners including the US fish and wildlife service, US geological survey and the NY department of environmental conservation plans to accomplish the restoration objectives by placing appropriately sized spawning bed material in locations determined by the project partners. This project will restore approximately 2 acres of spawning habitat in the eastern basin of lake ontario, about one acre in the black river mouth and one acre in chaumont BAY. Project implementation will begin in summer of 2022 and continue until the spawning beds are constructed (approximately 2 months).