Help Manage our Muskellunge

The Future

The basic data contained in the Cleithrum Project will continue to be archived and disseminated to interested parties. In addition, several exciting new developments in analyzing age and growth information will be applied to project data. These include:

• Setting age and growth standards.
• Estimating population mortality rates from maximum age.
• Examining factors affecting year-class strength and growth.
• Building long-term growth chronologies.
• Determining a general rule for sex-specific growth rates in muskellunge, allowing for the determination of sex for unknown samples based on growth rate.

Eventually these advances may allow for waterbody-specific management plans and regulations, which are dependent on adequate data from individual waterbodies such as the Cleithrum Project contains.