Index of nursery habitat suitability for muskellunge in Georgian Bay, Lake Huron.

To support Georgian Bay’s self-sustaining Muskellunge Esox m quinongy fisheries, we developed two index of nursery habitat suitability (INHS) models that can be used to identify and monitor the quality of Muskellunge nursery habitats in coastal wetlands. The INHS models were based on habitat features found in wetlands with age-0 Muskellunge identified at two large embayments in northern Georgian Bay. One INHS model had five variables that …