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•i 1996 Paria River Native Fish Monitoring Table 4. Capture location, total length, weight and sex offish implanted with a PIT tag from the Paria River, Arizona, 1996. Total PIT Tag _ Study Length Weight Sex Number 5964010 156 29.0 U 1F78265C67 5964010 158 32.0 U 1F7B49732A 5966010 420 741.0 U 1F78106673 5966010 462 1028.0 U 1F7A29417D 5966011 480 968.0 M 1F78100158 ~ 5966011 ~ 165 34.9 U 1F7B060A56 5967010 172 42.0 U 1F7A757A78 5967010 166 44.0 U 1F7A21695D 5967010 174 46.9 U 1F7B4D0118 5967010 188 59.8 U 1F7B191835 5967010 240 121.0 U 1F78095C04 5967010 316 266.0 U 1F7B6C1664 5967010 459 974.0 U 1F7A201037 5967010 475 1032.0 U 1F78057F65 Mean temperatures in the Paria River during 1996 ranged from 9.8 - 26.9° C (Table 5). Highest temperature was recorded on l9 May at Site 8 (32.0° C). Lowest temperature recorded was 7.0° C on 17 February at Site I . • ' Maximum and representative depths were relatively constant throughout 1996 (Table 5). Representative depths ranged from 9.5 - 19.5 cm. Velocity was highly variable at sampling sites in 1996. Mean velocities ranged from 44.3 cm/s on 13 August to 6l .6 cm/s on 15 March. The lowest velocity was recorded on 16 April (2 cm/s) and the highest on 27 July (106 cm/s). Paris River discharge in 1996 was relatively stable with few spates (Figure 5). The highest discharge in the Paris River was 510.3 cfs on 22 February and the lowest was 2.8 cfs on 19 May. All spates occurred at times when YOY prevalence was low. 8 Brooder and Hot~sg~e, 1996 Annual Report Arizona Game & Fish Depattmeat •