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Fish monitoring—you can participate
Onondaga Lake Fishery: 2007-2008 Fact Sheet This report describes recent findings of the County's comprehensive fish community monitoring program (September 2008). Each year, Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection (OCDWEP) monitors Onondaga Lake to measure how the lake is changing as water quality improves. The 2008 OCDWEP Ambient Monitoring Program (AMP) represents the 39th consecutive year of Onondaga County's lake water quality monitoring effort, and the 9th year of the biological monitoring effort. The County's monitoring program measures physical, chemical, and biological conditions and compares the results to state and federal standards. Results of the monitoring program are used to evaluate how the lake is changing in response to clean-up efforts. By law, all waters are to support recreational use and a balanced biological community. This national requirement is often referred to as ensuring that all waters are "fishable and swimmable". Onondaga County's monitoring program is designed to help answer two important questions:
Angler diary program You can help WEP in its efforts to assess the success of Onondaga Lake as a popular catch-and-release fishery. If you fish the lake, Seneca River, or Oneida River frequently, you could participate in the Angler Diary Program. The program requires careful recordkeeping of time spent fishing, numbers and species caught, fish kept, and area fished.
For additional information on fish in Onondaga Lake, please contact Dave Snyder, 315-435-2260.
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Fish monitoring—you can participate
