Przemek Bajer

Research Assistant Professor
he/him
[email protected]
Education
  • M.S. University of Lodz, Poland
  • Ph.D. University of Missouri, Columbia
External Affiliations

Dr. Bajer is the founder and owner of Carp Solutions, which develops management strategies for invasive fish. These interests have been reviewed and managed by the University of Minnesota in accordance with its Conflict of Interest policies. If you have concerns that your employment or academic efforts are being improperly directed due to his interests in Carp Solutions, you can contact MAISRC Director Nicholas Phelps, or Associate Director of the Conflict of Interest Program Jon Guden via email at [email protected] or (612) 626-4727.

Areas of Interest

Common carp

Biography

Dr. Przemek Bajer is a Research Assistant Professor at the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center. His research focuses on various aspects of the ecology, life history, and behavior of the invasive common carp so that new management strategies for this species can be developed. Most recently, he has been working on exploiting carp's social behaviors to train these fish to aggregate around bait and remove them in large numbers. He is currently also working on using the Whooshh System to remove carp from streams during spawning migrations. In addition to leading several research projects, he is the founder and owner of a University of Minnesota startup company, Carp Solutions, where they develop, apply and perfect modern technologies for carp management that can be used by managers, lake residents and private businesses. The overall goal is to make carp management effective, affordable and sustainable. In his off time, he likes to travel with his family, fly fish for trout and steelhead, and restore old bamboo fly rods.

Research

 

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  • Bajer, P. G., Hundt, P. J., Kukulski, E., & Kocian, M. (2022). Field test of an electric deterrence and guidance system during a natural spawning migration of invasive common carp. Management of Biological Invasions, 13(1), 204–219. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2022.13.1.12
  • Hundt, P. J., Amberg, J., Sauey, B., Vacura, K., & Bajer, P. G. (2020). Tests in a semi-natural environment suggest that bait and switch strategy could be used to control invasive common carp. Management of Biological Invasions, 11(3), 428–440. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2020.11.3.06
  • Hundt, P. J., White, L. A., Craft, M. E., & Bajer, P. G. (2022). Social associations in common carp (Cyprinus carpio): Insights from induced feeding aggregations for targeted management strategies. Ecology and Evolution, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8666
  • Larkin, D. J., Beck, M. W., & Bajer, P. G. (2020). An invasive fish promotes invasive plants in Minnesota lakes. Freshwater Biology, 65(9), 1608–1621. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13526
  • Sorensen, P. W., & Bajer, P. G. (2020). Case studies demonstrate that common carp can be sustainably reduced by exploiting source-sink dynamics in midwestern lakes. Fishes, 5(4), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes5040036
  • Tolo, I. E., Bajer, P. G., Mor, S. K., & Phelps, N. B. D. (2023). Disease ecology and host range of Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3) in CyHV-3 endemic lakes of North America. Journal of Fish Diseases, 46(6), 679–696. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.13778
  • Tolo, I. E., Padhi, S. K., Hundt, P. J., Bajer, P. G., Mor, S. K., & Phelps, N. B. D. (2021). Host range of carp edema virus (Cev) during a natural mortality event in a minnesota lake and update of cev associated mortality events in the USA. Viruses, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/v13030400