Connecting Coastal Marshes Using Movements of Resident and Migratory Fishes

In the Laurentian Great Lakes, diurnal migration of fishes into and out of coastal wetlands is well documented, but movement among wetlands is more poorly understood despite important conservation implications. We assessed movements of typically resident species using mark-recapture. For seven species, only 9 (6.2 %) individuals were recaptured in a wetland different from where they were tagged. Conversely, based on radio-tracking, typically …