{"id":124895,"date":"2016-03-10T18:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/muskellunge-of-the-ottawa-river\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T18:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:45:56","slug":"muskellunge-of-the-ottawa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/muskellunge-of-the-ottawa-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Muskellunge of the Ottawa River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kerr, S. J. 2010.<\/strong> <em>Muskellunge of the Ottawa River. Biodiversity Branch.<\/em> Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Peterborough, Ontario. 21 p. + appendices<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ecology of Ottawa River Muskellunge<\/strong><br \/>\n<b>Muskellunge Habitat<\/b><br \/>\nGenerally, the habitat preferences of muskellunge may be described as heavily<br \/>\nvegetated lakes; stumpy, weedy bays; and slow-flowing river systems (see Appendix 1). They have the ability to withstand water temperatures as high as 32\u00ba C as well as low dissolved oxygen levels. Larger muskellunge may also be found in deeper, less vegetated waters.<br \/>\nThere is considerable evidence to demonstrate reproductive homing in muskellunge (Crossman 1990, LaPan et al. 1996). Muskellunge spawning habitat generally occurs in shallow (38 &#8211; 51 cm deep), vegetated flooded areas at water temperatures between 10-15\u00baC (Scott and Crossman 1973, Cook and Solomon 1987, Zorn et al. 1998). Construction of the Carillon dam in 1964 flooded large areas of low lying land mostly on the Qu\u00e9bec side of the lower Ottawa River. This resulted in the creation of spawning and nursery habitat for a number of fish species including muskellunge.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/download the full report by clicking the link below (PDF &#8211; 850 KB)<br \/>\n<a title=\"Muskellunge of the Ottawa River_2010\" href=\"https:\/\/muskiescanadadotca.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/omnr_muskellunge-of-the-ottawa-river_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OMNR_Muskellunge of the Ottawa River_2010<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerr, S. J. 2010. Muskellunge of the Ottawa River. Biodiversity Branch. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Peterborough, Ontario. 21 p. + appendices Ecology of Ottawa River Muskellunge Muskellunge Habitat Generally, the habitat preferences of muskellunge may be described as heavily vegetated lakes; stumpy, weedy bays; and slow-flowing river systems (see Appendix 1). They have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-omnr-mfpp-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}