7848

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7848
• Author: Burdick, B. D.
• Title: Minimum Flow Recommendation For Passage Of Colorado Squawfish And Razorback Sucker In The 2.3-Mile Reach Of The Lower Gunnison River
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Redlands Diversion Dam To The Colorado River Confluence.
• Copyright Material: NO

Table A.3. Catch statistics for fishes collected by electrofishing from the
2.2-mile reach downstream of the Redlands Diversion Dam on the Lower
Gunnison River, Colorado, 30 March 1994 to 7 November 1995.
Catch
Number of Efforta Percentage
Common Name Fish (fish/h) Composition
rainbow trout 3 0.20 0.07
brown trout 23 1.51 0.55
northern pike 1 0.07 0.02
common carp 478 31.30 11.35
roundtail chub 429 28.09 10.19
Colorado squawfish 20 1.31 0.47
speckled dace 13 0.85 0.31
white sucker 112 7.33 2.65
bluehead sucker 1,371 89.78 32.55
flannelmouth sucker 1,647 107.86 39.10
black bullhead 4 0.26 0.09
channel catfish 70 4.58 1.66
green sunfish 5 0.33 0.12
largemouth bass 3 0.20 0.07
Hybrids
bluehead sucker X
flannelmouth sucker 2 0.13 0.05
white sucker X
bluehead sucker 19 1.24 0.45
white sucker X
flannelmouth sucker 12 0.79 0.28
TOTALS 4,212 -- 100.00
a Catch Effort=total catch per unit effort.
Total hours sampled: 15.27.
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