Thank you to Jean Dunes Gustave, Ministry of the Environment
for the South, for inviting the University of Kansas (KU) to hold a second
aquatic ecology workshop at his office building in Camp Perrin. This 2ème
Les Principes Écologie Aquatique focused on the results of our May 2013 study
of Etang Lachaux, a lake along National Route 7 south between Les Cayes and
Camp Perrin. See these past blogs for
the lake study and the 1st workshop in May 2013. The 29 participants represented 13
organizations and including people who owned land around the lake. Presenters were Dr. Donald Huggins from the
Kansas Biological Survey (KBS) at KU and Debbie Baker from KBS and Audubon
Center of Les Cayes.
We discussed the results of the water chemistry of the lake,
and gave recommendations for increasing water volume so that the lake can be
used for a fishery. Participants said that 1975 was the last time the lake completely dried up. We suggested that lake
managers do not stock this shallow lake with carp which are bottom feeders and
stir up the lake sediment.
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