9313

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9313
• Author: Burdick, B. D., J. Flair, M. Lloyd and B. Scheer.
• Title: Native and Nonnative Fish Use of Two Gravel-Pit Ponds Connected to the Upper Colorado River at 29-5/8 Road Near Grand Junction, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Project number CAP-6-GP,
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 1. Catch statistics for fishes collected by electrofishing, trap nets, and trammel nets from Gardner
and Hotspot ponds adjacent to the Colorado River near Grand Junction, Colorado, during pre-runoff,
April 1996.
PRE-RUNOFF (4/9 -,4/19/96)
Gardner Pond Hotspot Pond
Percentage Percentage
Native
flannelmouth sucker
bluehead sucker
roundtail chub
Colorado squawfish
Nonnative
black bullhead
common carp
'-' largemouth bass
white sucker
black crappie
bluegill
smallmouth bass
northern pike
walleye
channel catfish
green sunfish
36 42 78 11.76 10 2 12 1.72
0 1 1 0.15 0 1 1 0.14
7 12 19 2.87 2 3 5 0.72
0 3 3 0.45 0 1 1 0.14
240 1 241 36.35 205 13 218 31.28
2 122 124 18.70 18 167 185 26.54
1 5 6 0.90 12 21 33 4.73
57 72 129 19.46 104 24 128 18.36
6 14 20 3.02 15 58 73 10.47
5 12 17 2.56 2 26 28 4.02
0 0 0 -- 0 0 0 --
0 0 0 -- 0 0 0 --
0 0 0 -- 0 0 0 --
0 1 1 0.15 0 4 4 0.57
22 2 24 3.62 9 0 9 1.29
TOTAL
-- -- 663 100.0
Gardner Pond: % Native: 15.24
% Nonnative: 84.77
-- •• 697 100.0
Hotspot Pond: % Native: 2.72
% Nonnative: 97.28