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Fish monitoring - you can participate

Angler diary program

 Submit Angler Diary tallies online—direct. Click here.

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 qualify for the Angler Diary Program. The program requires some careful recordkeeping of time spent fishing, numbers and species caught, fish kept, and area fished.

The area under examination includes Onondaga Lake and segments of the Seneca and Oneida Rivers.
 
Click here to request an Angler Diary.
 Click here for details on the “Angler's Diary.”

Videos on the fish monitoring program

Click here for video on
Angler diary program
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* Requires Windows Media Player

Adult fish survey
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Fish larvae in deep water
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Finding fish along the shore
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What to do if you catch a tagged fish

If you catch a fish with WEP's yellow tag (bearing the name of Onondaga County and a number), please record where and when you caught it. Then call 315-435-2260 x360 to report.

Tagged fish—you can help
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Note: Releasing the fish will give the county an opportunity to gather more information about it in the future.
 

For additional information on fish in Onondaga Lake, please contact Dave Snyder, 315-435-2260.



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Susan Miller, Project Deputy Director
Phone 315-435-2260   Fax 315-435-5023
 Onondaga County Dept of Water Environment Protection