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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...
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Fisheries monitoring as part of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) has been conducted on Pool 13 of the Upper Mississippi River since 1989. In this span, over 344,000 fish of 74 species were collected and/or verified in Pool 13. Fisheries monitoring in 1997 was the fifth consecutive year of stratified random sampling. A total of 479 fisheries samples were collected in 1997 resulting in a catch of 50,030 fish representing 67 species. Emerald shiner ranked first in total abundance from 1989 1997 with bluegill and freshwater drum ranking second and third, respectively. White bass, black crappie, and carp were the next most abundant non-prey species collected. Population trends were analyzed on selected...
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Fisheries monitoring as part of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program has been conducted on Pool 13 of the Upper Mississippi River since 1989. In this span, over 825,000 fish representing 88 species were collected in Pool 13. Eight of these species are currently listed as endangered, threatened, or of special concern by the State of Iowa. Fisheries monitoring in 2013 represented the twenty-first year of stratified random sampling. A total of 300 fish samples were completed in 2013, yielding 13,048 fish of 58 species. Emerald shiner ranked first in total abundance during 1989-2013, with mimic shiner ranked second and bluegill third. Freshwater drum, largemouth bass, white bass, black crappie, and common carp...
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