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<br />study sets of collections currently cataloged, their corresponding field (locality record) <br />numbers, and related dBase files maintained by LFL and the RIP database repository <br />(mostly length frequency data, sometimes additional habitat or collection data such as <br />flowmeter readings). <br />Table 2 lists the taxa in cataloged collections with corresponding numbers of lots <br />and specimens. Total counts in Table 2 include 1994 and 1995 collections that were <br />cataloged as they were processed, whereas pre-1994 counts represent only backlog <br />collections cataloged under this project. The cataloged collections represent eight families, <br />30 species, and three identified or probable hybrids. Endangered species include 2,606 <br />Colorado squawfish Ptychocheilus lucius, 35 humpback chub (probably many more among <br />15,622 unidentified Gila), and 42 razorback sucker. Collections from Green River <br />razorback sucker reproduction investigations of 1992 through 1995 include several hundred <br />razorback sucker larvae but the collections are still in use and have not yet been cataloged. <br />A hard-copy (printout) of the catalog with selected primary and locality fields and a <br />pair of corresponding dBase files including most catalog fields are maintained by LFL. <br />Copies are not provided with this report because of their large size, but both have been sent <br />to the RIP database repository. The dBase files, from which hard copy can be generated, <br />are available upon request. Much information in the current collection catalog can be <br />readily scanned or searched on-line by anyone with access to the Internet (see next <br />section).LFL will respond to requests by researchers for needed catalog information, <br />including data not available on-line (e.g., developmental intervals, water temperature or <br />depth, gear). <br />Based on a "quick count", approximately 33,360 lots (an estimated 1.6 million <br />specimens) collected or reared for VCRB investigations from 1976 through 1995 remain to <br />be cataloged, upgraded, and reorganized on storage shelving. RougWy 2,000 of these <br />uncataloged lots consist of reared series of VCRB species that were not originally <br />considered for cataloging under this project. Another 4,940 or so backlog collections are <br />from 1992 and 1993 Green River razorback production investigations (about 1,000 lots) and <br />1990 through 1995 Flaming Gorge drift-net investigations (3,940 lots). The latter includes <br />about 1,100 lots from 1994 and 1995 for which cataloging costs were not budgeted. Other <br />1994 and 1995 collections have been or will be catalogued as a part of collection <br />processing by LFL. Most of the remaining 26,420 uncataloged lots are from pre-1992 <br />collections. Subtracting the 14,466 pre-1992 lots already cataloged from our high-end <br />estimate of 35,000 VCRB lots held by LFL in our original proposal, we expected 20,534 <br />pre-1992 lots to remain uncataloged. If our "quick count" is reasonably accurate, that <br />original estimate of VCRB holdings through 1991 was about 14% (5,886 lots) too low. <br />Together, the number of cataloged lots (24,840), and estimated number of as-yet <br />uncataloged lots (33,360), reveal a current total LFL holdings of approximately 58,200 lots <br />of VCRB material exclusive of unprocessed 1994 and 1995 collections (probably over 2.8 <br />million specimens). <br />Cataloging, upgrading, and reorganizing 1993 and earlier collections has proceeded <br />by project sets (e.g., 1990 Colorado and Gunnison River larval fish collections, fall 1989 <br />Green River young-of-the year collections) generally beginning with more recent <br />collections. Among uncataloged sets of collections, we have corresponding dBase files for <br />only two: 1990 yearling collections (spring ISMP-Incremental Standardized Monitoring <br />Program, 109 lots) and 1989 young-of-year collections (fall ISMP, 631 lots). Most older, <br />uncataloged collections received lower priority since corresponding computer database files <br /> <br />7 <br />