8290

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8290
• Author: Day, K. S. and C. Crosby.
• Title: An Assessment of Young-of-the-Year Colorado Squawfish ‎(Ptychocheilus lucius)‎ Use of Backwater Habitats in the Green River, Utah.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: FG-33,
• Copyright Material: NO

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES iv
LIST OF TABLES v
EXECUTIVE SiJMMARY vi
INTRODUCTION 1
STUDY AREA S
METHODS 8
Fish Community Sampling g
Habitat Features Sampling g
Data Analysis 11
RESULTS 12
.Habitat Features 12
Colorado Squawfish Habitat Use 15
Fish Community and Catch-per-unit-effort 24
DISCUSSION 30
RECONIfRENDAT I ONS 3 ~
LITERATURE CITED gg
APPENDIX 41
Appendix A. Examples of models developed to test for the ability of comb
of measured habitat variables to discriminate between backwa
used by Colorado squawfish and those not used by Colorado
squawfish in the Green River within Ouray NWR, Utah: 1990-42
Appendix B. Significant correlations (p<0.10) between catch-per-unit-eff
(fish/100m3) for different fish species in backwaters in th
River at Ouray NWR: 1990-1996. 46