Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Pool 13, Upper Mississippi River 2005 Fish Collection Summary
This report is a bullet summary of the Long
Term Resource Monitoring Program's (LTRMP) fish collection efforts
conducted by the Bellevue
Field Station on Pool
13, Upper Mississippi River during 2005. Information on changes in
fish catch over all years can be obtained from the Graphical
Fish Database Browser.
- 200 fish collections were conducted using six gear types (Table
2.3), with 172 from randomly selected sites and 28 from fixed sites.
- Backwater; main channel border, unstructured; and side channel border strata received the most sampling effort (Table
2.3).
- In 2005, water levels were lower than normal during much of the field season, but were considerably higher than normal during early October. Water levels did not affect sample allocations (Table 2.3; Figure
1.3).
- 14,188 fish were collected representing 54 species (Table
3.3).
- The LTRMP species total for Pool 13 before the 2005 season was 85; no new species were collected in the 2005 season (Table 3.3).
- Seven weed shiners were collected that are listed as endangered in Iowa. Also, fifty-three pugnose minnows were collected that are an Iowa-listed species of special concern (Table
3.3).
- Other species that were collected and are noted as uncommon, rare, or probably strays from tributaries (Pitlo et al. 1995) in Pool 13 were black buffalo, fathead minnow, green sunfish, quillback, silver lamprey, and smallmouth bass (Table
3.3).
- Mean catch-per-unit-effort and standard error for stratified random
sampling and fixed-site sampling for each stratum are shown in Pool
13 tables. Length distributions for selected species of fish are
shown in Figures 1
to 17.
Content manager: Jennie Sauer
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