Great Lakes
Fishing
History
The water system
Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary
100

This lake is the largest (by volume and size).

What is Lake Superior?

100

This is the largest fish in the Great Lakes.

What is a lake sturgeon?

100

The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 established joint management between the US and _______ for the Great Lakes.

What is Canada?

100

It takes this many years for water to move through Lake Ontario. 

What is six years? 

100

The Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary was established in this year.  

What is 2024?

200

This state borders four Great Lakes.

What is Michigan?

200

This largest sportfish caught in Lake Ontario weighed in at 47 pounds.

What is a Chinook (or King) salmon?
200
Oswego is located on the historical lands of what people? 

The Onondaga, the central firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. 

200

A raindrop that falls in Lake Superior takes how many years to reach Lake Ontario? 

What is 314?

200

This many counties are in the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary.

What is four--Cayuga, Jefferson, Oswego, and Wayne Counties?

300

These two great lakes, hydrologically speaking, are actually one lake.

What are Lakes Michigan and Huron?

300

This fish hatchery stocks millions of pounds of fish in Lake Ontario each year.

What is the Salmon River Fish Hatchery?

300

The name "Ontario" comes from this word.

What is the Huron word "Ontarí’io,” which means “great lake” or “beautiful water.”

300

The Great Lakes consist of this % of the US freshwater. 

What is 90%?

300
What is the purpose of establishing the LONMS?

What is to preserve cultural and maritime history?

400

This lake is the most shallow of the Great Lakes.

What is Lake Erie?

400

The number of anglers who came to fish in Lake Ontario in 2025. 

What is 130,000?

400

This was the site of General George Washington’s last ordered offensive of the Revolutionary War.

What is Fort Ontario?

400

The Great Lakes hold this percentage of the world's freshwater.

What is 20%?

400

There are almost 70 of these in the LONMS.

What are shipwrecks?

500

This lake is 802 feet deep.

What is Lake Ontario?

500

There are __________ fishing charter companies in Oswego, NY.

What are 20 - 30?

500

This was the earliest export from Oswego's port. 

What is fur?  (later salt, lumber, grain, and coal)

500

The world's other Great Lakes system is located on what continent? 

What is Africa?

500

This entity, along with NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, is the co-manager of our marine sanctuary.

Who is the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation?

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