7617

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7617
• Author: Platania, S. P. and K. R. Bestgen.
• Title: Survey of the Fishes of the Lower San Juan River, New Mexico.
• USFW Year: 1987.
• USFW - Doc Type: Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Copyright Material: NO

conductivity, dominant substrate(s), channel width,
average depth, and general comments on the types of
habitat within the 1 mile reach.
The foregoing recommendations are made to provide as
complete and accurate a data-set as possible on the ichthyofauna
(in particular, rare fishes) of the San Juan River in New Mexico,
and to increase efficiency during what we believe is, at this
stage, essentially an inventory. The specific details can be
described when it is determined which general recommendations are
accepted.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS '
A project such as this requires a high degree of cooperation
and coordination in the planning, field, and summary phases and
we have many people to thank for their help in that regard.
Members of the field crews on various trips included: S. Diswood,
Navajo Department of Game and Fish; C.M. Taylor (Dexter Field
Station, USFWS, G.L. Burton (Office of Endangered Species,
USFWS, Albuquerque), and J. Roehm and C.L. Couret (Ecological
Services, USFWS, Albuquerque), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(USFWS); K. Lashmett and M. Dlugolecki (Durango), and S. Tully
(Salt Lake City), U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USER); J.A. Cook,
University of New Mexico; and T.R. Cummings, Fort Collins,
Colorado. J.E. Brooks (Dexter Field Station) USFWS, and D.L.
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