Community Structure of Lake St. Clair Fishes Based Upon Catchability Studies from 1977 to 1988

Two fish communities, based upon species co-occurrences, were identified in Lake St. Clair. These may be broadly classified as a patchy water community (associated with an abundance of aquatic macrophytes) and an open water community. Centrarchids dominated the patchy water community, while species from the Catostomidae, Percidae, Sciaenidae, and Percichthyidae were most abundant in the open water community. The most ubiquitous species sampled …