Table of Contents

Part 1 Lake Huron ecosystem: limnology of Lake Huron, A.M. Beeton and J.H. Saylor; Lake Huron, North Channel and Georgian Bay ecosystems - phytoplankton structure and ecology, M. Munawar et al; Lake Huron, North Channel and Georgian Bay ecosystems - plankton size, composition and microbial assessment, M. Munawar and I.F. Munawar; fisheries of Lake Huron - an opportunity for stewardship, G.R. Spangler and J.H. Peters; status and future of Lake Huron fish communities - M.P. Ebener et al; a graphical paradigm for the sequential reduction and spectacular rehabilitation of the Lake Whitefish of Lake Huron, J.A. Reckahn; patterns of egg deposition by Lake Trout and Lake Whitefish at Tawas artificial reef, Lake Huron, 1990-1993, N.R. Foster and G.W. Kennedy; forage fish assemblage structure in the littoral and nearshore areas of St Martin Bay, Lake Huron, R.W. Brown et al; the role of wetlands as nearshore habitat in Lake Huron, D.A. Wilcox; breeding avifauna of Lake Huron, H.H. Prince and C.S. Flegel; changes in the status, distribution and biology of Ospreys ("Pandion haliaetus") breeding on Lake Huron, P.J. Ewins et al. Part 2 Saginaw Bay ecosystem: history and status of fisheries in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron, R.C. Haas; restoring and protecting Saginaw Bay - the Saginaw Bay National Watershed Initiative and the Saginaw River/Bay Remedial Action Plan, J.H. Bredin and G.W. Goudy; the microcrustacean community of a Saginaw Bay coastal emergent marsh, V.J. Brady and T.M. Burton. Part 3 Sediment toxicity and management: trace elemental concentrations in 1988 Saginaw Bay sediments - comparison with historical data, R. Rossmann; using the burden of evidence approach for sediment management - case study - Collingwood Harbour, G. Krantzberg; St Mary's River - chemical treatment of contaminated sediments by iron injection, T.P. Murphy et al; sediment effects on the uptake of Trichloroethylene by roots and leaves of "Vallisneria americana", M. Biernacki et al. Part 4 Exotics and general: the effects of the change in the angling season on the Walleye "Stizostedion vitreum" fishery of Lake Nipissing, Ontario, 1968 to 1992 (25 years), C.R. Jorgensen and J.A. Reckahn; ecology, distribution and impact of the newly introduced Round and Tubenose Gobies on the biota of the St Clair and Detroit Rivers, D.J. Jude et al; status and control of Ruffle ("Gymnocephalus cernuus") in Lake Superior and potential for range expansion, T.R. Busiahn and J.R. McClain; aspects of flora modification and style-morph frequency in a colonizing weed, "Lythrum salicaria" (purple loosestrife), T.K. Mal; lakewide management planning in the Laurentian Great Lakes - a perspective for Lake Huron, I.R. Smith and T. Coape-Arnold.

About the Author

M. Munawar is a research scientist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the series editor for the Ecovision World Monograph series, based out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

T. Edsall is an emeritus research biologist with the U.S. Geological Science Center, Biological Resources Division, Great Lakes Science Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

J. Leach is an emeritus research scientist with the Lake Erie Fisheries Station for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Canada, and an IAGLR Lifetime Achievement Award winner (2008).