Hatchery-reared Roundtail Chub Data, Arizona USA

These data were compiled as part of a larger study to evaluate post-stocking survival of hatchery-reared Roundtail Chub. We conducted a two year study (Dec. 2015 – Mar. 2017) in the upper Verde River at the Burnt Ranch stocking location near Paulden, Arizona. Young of year Roundtail Chub were acquired from the Arizona Research and Conservation Center in Cornville, Arizona. Passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags (BioMark, 12.5 mm 134.2 kHz FDX) were implanted into Roundtail Chub each year (n = 333, Year 1; n = 2177, Year 2) prior to stocking. Each year, fish were measured (total length, TL, mm) before release (reflected in Pre-Stocking data table). We used two methods to recapture stocked fish, one passive and...

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Humpback chub (Gila cypha) capture histories and growth data for two areas in the Colorado River network from 2009-2022 and 2017-2022

These data were compiled for a manuscript entitled 'Vital rates of a burgeoning population of Humpback Chub in western Grand Canyon. Objective(s) of our study were to compare survival and growth of humpback chub in western Grand Canyon to that from the more established metapopulation in eastern Grand Canyon that spawns in the Little Colorado River (LCR). These data represent capture histories of fish based on mark-recapture data. These data were collected in eastern Grand Canyon (CR-east study site) and in the western Grand Canyon (CR-west study site). The CR-east reach sites are located at the lower 13.56 rkm of the LCR and in the mainstem of the Colorado River at river kilometers (rkm) 126.2-128.7 (2009-2016)...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Climatology, Colorado River, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Little Colorado River, PIT antennas, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, abundance, asymptotic sizes, biota, capture histories, data release, eastern Grand Canyon, ecological processes, field inventory and monitoring, field monitoring stations, field sampling, fish, fish capture, fit mark-recapture models, growth analysis, growth data, growth rates, humpback chub, individual fish models, long-term ecological monitoring, mark-recapture data, metapopulation, migration (organisms), modeling, movement, multistate model, organism growth and development, passive integrated transponder tags, population and community ecology, relative abundance analysis, size measurements, survival, vital rates, water temperature, western Grand Canyon, Fewer tags