| Impact ID |
Scientific Name
|
Impact Type
|
Study Type
|
Study Location
|
Impact Description
|
Geographic Location
|
Reference
|
|
3726
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Recreation
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Rainbow smelt are used as bait fish by anglers
|
United States, Great Lakes
|
24462
|
|
6644
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Recreation
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Important recreational species such as walleye and lake trout may both benefit and suffer from introductions of rainbow smelt depending on the extent to which rainbow smelt acts as a prey item, predator, or competitor.
|
Great Lakes, USA
|
24329
|
|
6715
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Recreation
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Rainbow smelt provides a food source to many recreationally important piscivores in the Great Lakes, including native burbot (Lota lota), yellow perch, and introduced salmonids. Species such as walleye and lake trout may both benefit and suffer from introductions of rainbow smelt depending on the extent to which rainbow smelt acts as a prey item, predator, or competitor
|
|
24329
|
|
6726
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Recreation
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
Historically, recreational harvest of rainbow smelt has also been popular.
|
Great Lakes, USA
|
24336
|
|
6727
|
Osmerus mordax
|
Recreation
|
Anecdotal
|
N/A
|
An annual harvest of over 150,000 rainbow smelt in the Great Lakes system was recently reported in a 2005 survey of anglers in Canada.
|
Great Lakes, USA
|
24302
|