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26 <br />As would be expected, the appearance of each station depended on water level. <br />Where the river was confined to a single channel, such as Station 10 (Figure 12), <br />the river was confined to a single channel, such as Station 10 (Figure 12), <br />there was little change in appearance except for some flooding of the lower <br />bank areas (Figure 18b). However, the increase in depth and velocity of <br />the main channel restricted sampling to the shallow flooded banks. Backwater <br />areas like Station 5 (Figure 8) typically consisted of small channels, <br />exposed sandbars and isolated pools which when flooded, offered fish a <br />protected environment from the rushing flood waters (Figure 18a). These <br />flooded shallow areas and pools were extensively sampled using the electro- <br />fishing boat. During high flows sampling was conducted by boat which was <br />floated from Station 5 to Station 15 (May) and from Station 2 to Station 15 <br />(June). On the float trips, sampling was conducted in all suitable habitat <br />rather than just at the 15 specific sample sites. <br />RESULTS AND'DISCUSSION <br />The total number of fish collected throughout the study was 19,957; <br />12 species of fish were represented (Table 1). Appendix A lists the individ- <br />ual sites and the number of fish collected at each site during each sampling <br />trip. Red shiners were the most commonly found species (62.5%), followed <br />by roundtail chubs (11.2%), flannelmouth suckers (8.6%), speckled dace (8.3%), <br />fathead minnows (5.5%), carp (2.6%), and channel catfish (.6%) (Table 2). <br />Bluehead suckers, black bullheads, green sunfish, and brown trout individually <br />comprised less than .5% of the total number of fish collected. <br />During a 1974-1975 study of the White River in Utah, (Crosby, 1975) the <br />predominate fishes were red shiner (51.3%), followed by speckled dace (24.8%), <br />flannelmouth suckers (10.3%), bluehead suckers (4.2%), fathead minnows (2.6%), <br />channel catfish (2.4%), roundtail chubs (2.2%) and carp (.8%) (Table 2).