1995 Annual Status Report:  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. D.
Blodgett, and P. T. Raibley.  1997.  1995 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, August 1997. 
LTRMP 97-P009.  15 pp. + Chapters 1 6   (NTIS #PB97-205827) 


ABSTRACT

The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) completed 2,723 collections of
fishes from stratified random and permanently fixed sampling locations in six study
reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System during 1995.  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 reaches 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 59 72 fish species were detected in each
study reach. For each of the six LTRMP study reaches, 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

1995 annual report, fish, LTRMP, Mississippi River