Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Table 3.6 |
Total catches, by gear type, of fish collected in La Grange Pool of the Illinois River during 2006. See Table 2.6 for the list of sampling gears actually deployed in this study reach. |
Common name |
Scientific name |
Day electrofishing |
Fyke net | Mini fyke net |
Small hoop net | Large hoop net | Trawling | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Emerald shiner |
Notropis atherinoides |
1858 |
- |
12611 |
- |
- |
- |
14469 |
Gizzard shad |
Dorosoma cepedianum |
5273 |
255 |
1659 |
- |
5 |
- |
7192 |
Western mosquitofish |
Gambusia affinis |
82 |
- |
1083 |
- |
- |
- |
1165 |
Channel catfish |
Ictalurus punctatus |
100 |
5 |
119 |
666 |
76 |
71 |
1037 |
Common carp |
Cyprinus carpio |
509 |
57 |
3 |
154 |
257 |
- |
980 |
Freshwater drum |
Aplodinotus grunniens |
620 |
128 |
66 |
4 |
11 |
13 |
842 |
White bass |
Morone chrysops |
352 |
303 |
121 |
- |
6 |
- |
782 |
Bluegill |
Lepomis macrochirus |
330 |
47 |
241 |
- |
- |
- |
618 |
Smallmouth buffalo |
Ictiobus bubalus |
210 |
9 |
1 |
27 |
333 |
- |
580 |
Bullhead minnow |
Pimephales vigilax |
160 |
- |
356 |
- |
- |
- |
516 |
Orangespotted sunfish |
Lepomis humilis |
178 |
- |
322 |
- |
- |
- |
500 |
Red shiner |
Cyprinella lutrensis |
45 |
- |
437 |
- |
- |
- |
482 |
Silver carp |
Hypopthalmichthys molitrix |
263 |
2 |
42 |
1 |
9 |
- |
317 |
Shortnose gar |
Lepisosteus platostomus |
36 |
167 |
67 |
- |
- |
- |
270 |
River carpsucker |
Carpiodes carpio |
175 |
32 |
6 |
- |
5 |
- |
218 |
Bigmouth buffalo |
Ictiobus cyprinellus |
192 |
3 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
196 |
Silverband shiner |
Notropis shumardi |
16 |
- |
174 |
- |
- |
- |
190 |
Skipjack herring |
Alosa chrysochloris |
144 |
4 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
153 |
Yellow bass |
Morone mississippiensis |
22 |
46 |
15 |
- |
- |
- |
83 |
Spottail shiner |
Notropis hudsonius |
9 |
- |
55 |
- |
- |
- |
64 |
White crappie |
Pomoxis annularis |
30 |
21 |
11 |
- |
- |
- |
62 |
Green sunfish |
Lepomis cyanellus |
53 |
- |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
58 |
Unidentified Catostomidae (suckers) |
Catostomidae sp. |
46 |
- |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
54 |
Largemouth bass |
Micropterus salmoides |
50 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
52 |
Grass carp |
Ctenopharyngodon idella |
38 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
- |
50 |
Flathead catfish |
Pylodictis olivaris |
29 |
3 |
1 |
- |
9 |
- |
42 |
Shorthead redhorse |
Moxostoma macrolepidotum |
17 |
19 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
36 |
Black crappie |
Pomoxis nigromaculatus |
19 |
1 |
7 |
- |
- |
- |
27 |
White perch |
Morone americana |
6 |
10 |
9 |
- |
- |
- |
25 |
Bighead carp |
Hypopthalmichthys nobilis |
2 |
5 |
1 |
- |
12 |
- |
20 |
Golden shiner |
Notemigonus crysoleucas |
4 |
- |
14 |
- |
- |
- |
18 |
Sand shiner |
Notropis stramineus |
17 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
18 |
White perch x yellow bass hybrid |
M. americana x mississippiens |
5 |
5 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
15 |
Bowfin |
Amia calva |
3 |
10 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
13 |
Brown bullhead |
Ameiurus nebulosus |
- |
10 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
13 |
Sauger |
Stizostedion canadense |
11 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
13 |
Black bullhead |
Ameiurus melas |
- |
- |
12 |
- |
- |
- |
12 |
Black buffalo |
Ictiobus niger |
5 |
2 |
- |
- |
3 |
- |
10 |
Threadfin shad |
Dorosoma petenense |
6 |
- |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
9 |
River shiner |
Notropis blennius |
1 |
- |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
9 |
Silver chub |
Macrhybopsis storeriana |
4 |
- |
3 |
- |
- |
1 |
8 |
Goldfish |
Carassius auratus |
5 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
7 |
Quillback |
Carpiodes cyprinus |
1 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
7 |
Brook silverside |
Labidesthes sicculus |
6 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
7 |
Johnny darter |
Etheostoma nigrum |
5 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
6 |
Carp x goldfish hybrid |
Carassius auratus x C. carpio |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
5 |
Golden redhorse |
Moxostoma erythrurum |
2 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
Yellow bullhead |
Ameiurus natalis |
2 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
Warmouth |
Lepomis gulosus |
3 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
Spotted gar |
Lepisosteus oculatus |
2 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
Blackstripe topminnow |
Fundulus notatus |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
Redear sunfish |
Lepomis microlophus |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
Smallmouth bass |
Micropterus dolomieu |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
Longnose gar |
Lepisosteus osseus |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Bluntnose minnow |
Pimephales notatus |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Northern pike |
Esox lucius |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Pumpkinseed |
Lepomis gibbosus |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Green sunfish x bluegill hybrid |
L. cyanellus x L. macrochirus |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Mud darter |
Etheostoma asprigene |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
Total by Gear |
10958 |
1161 |
17487 |
853 |
733 |
85 |
31277 |
Page Last Modified: April 17, 2018