. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 2001 Taylor: Status of Sympatric Smelt in Lake Utopia, New Brunswick 133 western New Brunswick, and is located about 100 km SW of Saint John (Figure 2). Dwarf smelt from Lake Utopia were introduced into Meech Lake, Quebec in 1924 (Dymond 1939) where they appear to have established a self-sustaining population because mature individuals have been collected as recently as 1991 (Delisle and Veilleux 1969; E. B. Taylor and N. Alfonso, unpublished data). Genetically distinct dwarf and normal smelt also occur in Lochaber Lake, Nova Scotia (Guysboroug
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 2001 Taylor: Status of Sympatric Smelt in Lake Utopia, New Brunswick 133 western New Brunswick, and is located about 100 km SW of Saint John (Figure 2). Dwarf smelt from Lake Utopia were introduced into Meech Lake, Quebec in 1924 (Dymond 1939) where they appear to have established a self-sustaining population because mature individuals have been collected as recently as 1991 (Delisle and Veilleux 1969; E. B. Taylor and N. Alfonso, unpublished data). Genetically distinct dwarf and normal smelt also occur in Lochaber Lake, Nova Scotia (Guysborough County) and these forms appear to have arisen independently from those in Lake Utopia (Taylor and Bentzen 1993a). Putative sym- patric populations of dwarf and normal smelt (, reproductive isolation between forms has not been confirmed by genetic means) also occur in Lac Heney, Gatineau River drainage, Gatineau Co., Quebec (Delisle 1969); Green and Onawa lakes, Maine; Lake Champlain (Quebec, Vermont, and New York); and Lake Kenogami, Quebec (Delisle and Veilleux 1969). Current data indicates that sympatric smelt populations in northeastern North America have had independent origins (Taylor and Bentzen 1993a); the status of these other putative sympatric popula- tions, therefore, will need to be evaluated indepen- dently from the Lake Utopia populations. Protection Exploitation of the smelt populations of Lake Utopia is limited to local dip-net fisheries during the spring spawning periods (April and May). Most of. Enlargement Figure 2. Lake Utopia and surrounding watershed includ- ing Dwarf ("A") and Normal Smelt ("B") spawning streams. the effort appears to be focused on the Normal Smelt populations in Mill Lake Stream and Trout Lake Stream (Figure 2) owing to the ease of public access and larger spawning runs (E. B. Taylor, personal observations). Legal methods of fishing include gill nets, bag nets, box nets, dip-nets, and angling, but a closed seaso
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