Quinte Fishing

A few months ago, an interesting conversation began regarding Gobies eating zebra mussles, and how that ultimately lead to high levels of toxins in Lake Erie smallmouth bass. A friend of mine recently kept some Lake Simcoe perch while ice fishing and found their bellies to be "full" of zebra mussles. Ha s anyone experienced this with BOQ perch (or other species)?


Captain Hank

Havn't kept any perch for quite some time, but I can say that I heard that contrary to popular belief, gobies don't eat zebra mussles. Now, I'm kicking myself because I can't remember the source, but I do remember it being a very viable one.

We must've read the same article Darby! I remember that too!

Wild, now there in Perch

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WIG

Here is a link to a page concerning gobies in the St.Clair

/www.seagrant.umn.edu/exotics/goby.html

In fact gobies DO eat zebras & in Quite large numbers.

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There is a study on the MNR site titled "diet of the round goby in the Bay of Quinte". It might answer your question.
Skeet 544

Guys,

Might this be the articleyou had read?

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Pauky
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