This could mean that golden shiners are more susceptible in the summer.
More than 50,000 fish, including bass, catfish, golden shiners and bluegills, can be caught and then returned to the Harlem Meer, an 11-acre lake.
The Parks Department also put in large-mouth bass, golden shiners, catfish and blue-gill sunfish.
Like other minnows, golden shiners are sensitive to the release of an alarm substance, or Schreckstoff, contained within special skin cells.
Tanks are reserved for Caribbean hermit crabs, and one exhibiting an alligator snapping turtle, catfish, golden shiners, sunfish, and bluegill.
In that case, it is usually necessary to add more forage fish such as flathead minnows or golden shiners, perhaps every year, to feed the bass.
Also found were chain pickerel, largehmouth bass, black crappie, golden shiners, pumpkinseed, yellow perch, bluegill, and bullheads.
Its diet is varied and it includes yellow perch, suckers, golden shiners, walleye, small mouth bass, and various other types of fish.
The researchers then used an experimental approach to ask the same questions using golden shiners, a very social species of fish known for their schooling behavior.
ODFW has captured golden shiners, another invasive species of bait fish illegally introduced to the lake.