Mitigation of lampricide toxicity to juvenile lake sturgeon: the importance of water alkalinity and life stage

Lay SummaryYoung-of-the-year lake sturgeon living in waters of high alkalinity are susceptible to mortality when exposed to 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM), a pesticide used to control invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. This risk may be reduced, however, by delaying TFM treatments to late-summer/fall, when sturgeon are larger and accumulate TFM more slowly.

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