Cook Plant preoperational studies 1970 / John C. Ayers ... [et al.].

received a list of 28 fish species taken during the past three years around
Consumers Power Company's Palisades Nuclear Plant near South Haven, Michigan.
The fish were obtained by gill-netting four times a year in depths of 20
and 40 feet, by several beach-seine hauls, and by trawling twice one summer
in depths of 18, 42, and 72 feet.
Below is the list of 28 fish species taken. Those marked with an asterisk
were captured in shallow water (3 feet or less) by seine but some were taken
in greater depths as well. Those with a double asterisk were captured only
by seine:
Spottail shiner * Sculpin (C. bairdii) ** Quillback **
Longnose dace ** Yellow perch * Smallmouth bass **
Lake trout * White sucker * Black bullhead **
Chinook salmon * Coho salmon, Common shiner **
Alewife * Smelt Golden redhorse
Johnny darter ** Trout-perch Lake herring
Lake emerald shiner ** Longnose sucker Mud pickerel **
Bloater (L. hoyi) * Channel catfish Northern pike
Bluegill ** Carp ** Burbot **
Round whitefish
In personal communication to J. C. Ayers, Mr. Patriarche has pointed out
that the inclusion of the round whitefish in the list is based upon only 3
specimens caught in the first year of the Palisades surveys.
Mr. Patriarche suggests, and we agree, that the 30 miles between the
Palisades and Cook plants along the open Michigan shore should make little
difference between the two plant sites.
There being no other fish data yet obtained, we accept the list of fishes
captured at Palisades as being the best probable indication of the local fishes
at the Cook Plant.
At present we are uncertain when active collection of fishes at the Cook
Plant can be begun.

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