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BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo researchers are looking down at a 24-foot-long flume of shallow running water. Inside, about a dozen emerald shiner minnows are furiously attempting to swim ...

State University of New York Buffalo State College and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are collaborating with experts on an Emerald Shiners to improve the overall ecosystem of the waters surrounding ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Lake Erie yellow perch are finally making an appearance along the Ohio shoreline, but where are the emerald shiner minnows? The most popular bait for catching yellow perch has been ...

Chris Overmyer wants to put the sparkle back in fishermen's bait buckets. He's not alone along Ohio's expansive Lake Erie shoreline. Emerald shiner minnows, a native of Lake Erie, are by far the most ...

Emerald shiners and yellow perch have had a thing going for a long while. One is the eaten, the other the eater. Those who fish have cause to heed such a relationship. Anglers recognize that if there ...

LEXINGTON — Spend some time near the waterfront and you might see a spectacle common this time of year. A large flock of gulls was feeding Thursday afternoon on a massive school of baitfish in ...

Ten baffles were installed along the seawall at Buffalo’s Freedom Park, slowing the Niagara River’s velocity to allow emerald shiners to swim more easily upstream to Lake Erie. Credit: Sean Bennett ...