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Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel Cisco calls at Beaver Island, 1988

Also USFWS Cisco Beaver Island visit · Cisco Great Lakes research vessel

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TypeEvent
Date1988-10
WithinSaint James Harbor
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Saint James HarborLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
1988-10
Kind
Observation
Where
Saint James Harbor
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
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Within
Saint James Harbor

Summary

The October 1988 Beaver Beacon describes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel Cisco calling at Beaver Island while working in the Lake Michigan region. The vessel’s crew studied fish and habitats using nets, trawls, underwater video, tagging, and onboard laboratory equipment.

Evidence limits

The article describes the vessel’s research program and harbor visits; it does not establish a specific October sampling operation or findings at Beaver Island.

Sources

  1. Describes the United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel Cisco, its Lake Michigan research mission, crew, periodic harbor visits for fresh water, and work sampling fish and habitats. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the research-vessel account.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-10_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fish and Wildlife Service research vessel Cisco calls at Beaver Island, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cisco-fish-research-vessel-1988/, accessed [date], citing “The Cisco,” Beaver Beacon, October 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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