**ABSTRACT NOT FOR CITATION WITHOUT AUTHOR PERMISSION. The title, authors, and abstract for this completion report are provided below.  For a copy of the full completion report, or with questions, please contact the GLFC via email at stp@glfc.org or via telephone at 734-662-3209.**

Compilation and analysis of Lake Superior salmonines diets: a multi-agency collaboration

Thomas R. Hrabik2 , Bradley Ray2,6 , Donald R. Schreiner3, Mark P. Ebener4 and

Owen Gorman5

^{2Department of Biology, 211 Life Science, 10 Univ. Dr., Duluth, MN 55812}

^{3Department of Natural Resources, 5351 North Shore Drive, Duluth, MN 55804}

^{4 Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority, 179 W. Three Mile Road, Sault Ste. Marie,}

^{MI 49783}

^{5 USGS Great Lake Science Center, Lake Superior Biological Station, Ashland, WI}

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^{6Current Address: College of Natural Resources, 100 Cheatham Hall, Blacksburg, VA}

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December 2003

ABSTRACT:

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) Coordination Activities Program supported the purchase of a modern acoustic signal processing and data management system for ongoing, inter-agency fisheries acoustic surveys on Lake Erie. The new signal processing system, ECHOVIEW, is a product of the company SonarData. This project also supported ECHOVIEW training from the software developer for Messer’s Einhouse and Witzel. We subsequently convened a workshop for members of the Lake Erie Forage Task Group to introduce ECHOVIEW software and its application to ongoing Lake Erie acoustic surveys.