1992 Annual Status Report:  A summary of fish data in six reaches of the UMRS


Gutreuter, S., R. W. Burkhardt, M. Stopyro, A. Bartels, E. Kramer, M. C. Bowler, F. A.
Cronin, D. W. Soergel, M. D. Petersen, D. P. Herzog, K. S. Irons, T. M. O'Hara, K.
Douglas Blodgett, and P. T. Raibley.  1997.  1992 Annual Status Report:  A summary of
fish data in six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System.  U.S. Geological Survey,
Environmental Management Technical Center, Onalaska, Wisconsin, December 1997. 
LTRMP 97-P006.  14 pp. + Chapters 1 6  (NTIS #PB98-122047)


ABSTRACT

The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) completed 2,221 collections
of fishes from stratified random and permanently fixed sampling locations in six study
reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System during 1992.  Collection methods
included day and night electrofishing, hoop netting, fyke netting (two net sizes), gill
netting, seining, and trawling in select aquatic area classes.  The six LTRMP study areas
are Pools 4 (excluding Lake Pepin), 8, 13, and 26 of the Upper Mississippi River, an
unimpounded reach of the Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and the La
Grange Pool of the Illinois River.  A total of 56 70 fish species were detected in each
study area.  For each of the six LTRMP study areas, this report contains summaries of:
(1) sampling efforts in each combination of gear type and aquatic area class, (2) total
catches of each species from each gear type, (3) mean catch-per-unit of gear effort
statistics and standard errors for common species from each combination of aquatic area
class and selected gear type, and (4) length distributions of common species from
selected gear types.


KEYWORDS

1992 annual report, fish, LTRMP, Mississippi Rive