“Lost” papers on Lake Ontario biology discovered, available online

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 12, 2016

Randy Eshenroder, Managing Editor, Great Lakes Fishery Commission, randye@glfc.org

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Eighteen unpublished papers on biology produced under IFYGL (International Field Year for the Great Lakes) were recently discovered in the files of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and are now available on its website.

“These papers contain a wealth of historical data on Lake Ontario,” states Randy Eshenroder, managing editor at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. “Their late dissemination is unfortunate, especially for authors, and for this lapse the commission expresses its regrets.”

The papers were referred to in IFYGL—The International Field Year for the Great Lakes, published in 1981 by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory under the editorship of E J. Aubert and T. L. Richards. This referral was in a brief chapter on biology written by W. J. Christie and N. A. Thomas, which suggested that a more-detailed description of biology was contained in a separate report. The separate report, for unknown reasons, never was published, although the papers were produced and had been edited. The collection of papers, Status of the IFYGL biota of Lake Ontario, 1972-1973, are now available online via the commission’s site under Publications (http://glfc.org/pubs_out/communi.php).