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UCREFRP Catalog Number
7771
Author
Muth, R. T. and D. E. Snyder.
Title
Diets of Young Colorado Squawfish and Other Small Fish in Backwaters of the Green River, Colorado and Utah.
USFW Year
1994.
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<br />(3.2-mm by 4.8-mm mesh) in fall. Fish were killed and fixed in 10% formalin <br />immediately after collection. <br />Up to five specimens =s;; 20 mm TL and five > 20 mm TL of each fish species per <br />sample were selected for analysis of gut contents; each length group contained <br />fish representing a graded size series from shortest to longest. The entire <br />digestive tract (from esophagus to vent) was removed from each fish, opened, and <br />visually assessed for percent fullness. Food items were identified to the lowest <br />practical taxon, and a visual estimate was made of the percentage contributed by <br />each taxon to the total volume of food in each digestive tract (Larimore 1957, <br />Mathur 1977). For diet analyses, food-item taxa (total of 124) were grouped into <br />20 food categories. <br />Data on gut contents for each fish species were stratified into subsets <br />according to 10-mm TL or larger intervals by season (summer or fall) within each <br />river reach (upper or lower). Only subsets with at least six fish containing food <br />were included in analyses. Diet measures calculated for each subset to determine <br />relative importance of each food category were (1) mean percentage contributed by <br />each food category to the total volume of food in each digestive tract (mean of <br />volume percentages) and (2) percentage of all digestive tracts in which each food <br />category occurred (percentage of occurrence). Wallace (1981) evaluated several <br />diet measures and concluded that mean of volume percentages is the best measure <br />when calculating overlap. However, percentage of occurrence is useful for <br />describing general variations in diet (Wallace 1981, Bowen 1983). <br />Overall similarities in diet by subset between Colorado squawfish and other <br />fishes were evaluated by Schoener's (1970) resource-overlap index: <br /> <br />5 <br />
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