1995 Annual Status Report: A summary of fish data in six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System
Dates
Publication Date
1997-08
Summary
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 [...]
Summary
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.
