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-21- <br />ROUGH FISH IN THE MIMBRES RIVER SHOWED A SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER PERCENTAGE OF THE <br />SAMPLE IN THE 0 - 4 INCH GROUP THAN IN THE 4.1 - 6 INCH GROUP. <br />1. SALMO GA1`RI (GILA DRAINAGE) <br />THIS SPECIES SHOWED A GRADUAL.DECLINE FROM THE 0 - 4 INCH GROUP, WHICH CONSTITUTI <br />THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF THE SAMPLE TAKEN9 TO THE 1001 - 12 INCH GROUP. THE SHARPS! <br />DECLINE WAS FROM THE 601 - 8 INCH GROUP TO THE 8.1 - 10 INCH GROUP. (FIGURE 9) <br />20 SA` O GAGAINNERI NIMSRES RIVER) <br />IN THIS DRAINAGE9 THE GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF THE TROUT TAKEN WAS IN THE 401 - 6 <br />INCH GROUP. THE PER CENT OF THE SAMPLE IN THE 0 - 4 INCH GROUP WAS CONSIDERABLE LOIM <br />THAN- THAT IN THE 4.1 - 6 INCH AND- 6.1 - 8 INCH GROUPS. (FIGURE 10) <br />30 SALw GI6AE (GILA DRAINAGE) <br />THE 4.1 - 6 INCH GROUP CONSTITUTED THE GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF SALMO GILAE TAKEN* <br />THE 0 - 4 INCH GROUP WAS SOMEWHAT LOWER. A SHARP DECLINE 13 NOTED FROM THE 4.i - 6 <br />INCH TO THE 6.1 - 8 INCH GROUP. FROM THIS SIZE, THE CURVE DECLINES GRADUALLY TO THE <br />10.1 - 12 INCH GROUP, IN WHICH THE LARGEST TROUT TAKEN OCCURRED. (FIGURE 9) <br />40 SALM2 TRH UTTA (GILA DRAINAGE) <br />SUE. GROUP 6.1 - 8 CONSTITUTED THE GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF THE SA„lMO TRRUTTA TAKEN. <br />(FIGURE 9) THE NEXT LARGEST GROUP BY PER CENT WAS THE 0 4 INCH. THERE WAS A SHARP <br />DECLINE FROM-THE'0-4 TO THE 6.1 - 8 INCH GROUP3o <br />S. SM;YELINAS FONTINALIS (GILA DRAINAGE) <br />FISH IN THE 0 - 4 INCH GROUP CONSTITUTED OVER 50 PER CENT OF THE SAMPLE TAKEN. <br />A SHARP DECLINE WAS NOTED FROM THE 0 - 4 TO THE 4.1 - 6 INCH GROUPS. THE LARGEST <br />FISH TAKEN WERE IN THE 801 - 10 INCH GROUPS BUT THESE MADE UP A SMALL PER CENT OF THE <br />TOTAL SAMPLE. (FIGURE 9) <br />6. CT RUS T.-PUNT-U8 ( GILA DRAINAGE) <br />Si.ZE.GROUPS 4.1 - 6 INCH AND 10.11 - 12 INCH CONSTITUTED A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE <br />NUMBER OF ICTALURUS 1. PUNCTATUS TAKEN. MANY OF THESE WERE TAKEN FROM THE SAN FRANCjs <br />RIVER' A TRIBUTARY ? OF THE G ILA LA R I VER, THERE WAS A CONSIDERABLE FLUCTUATION BETWEEN <br />SIZE. GROUPS IN' PER CENT OF SAMPLE TAKEN! AS SHOWN IN FIGURE 11. <br />To 1ME8 5Y-E, (GILA DRAINAGE) <br />THIS SPECIES COVERED A SMALL RANGE IN SIZE GROUPS' FROM THE 0 - 4 ;;MOH TO THE <br />8.1 - 10 INCH GROUP. THE 0 - 4 INCH AND 6.1 - 8 INCH GROUPS CONSTITUTED THE LARGEST <br />PERCENTAGE OF THE SAMPLE-TAKEN. (FIGURE 11) <br />8. GH FISH , (G 1 LA DRAINAGE) <br />CATOSTOMUS INSIGNIS COVERED THE WIDEOT RANGE OF SIZE GROUPS OF THE THREE SPECIES <br />OF ROUGH FISH TAKEN I N THE G ILA DRAINAGE. THIS SPECIES RANGED FROM zu Q m 4 INCH TO <br />THE 16.1 - 18 INCH GROUPS. THE sPEciMENS IN THE 4.1 - 6 INCH TO Stq1 - 10 bNCH GROUPS <br />CONSTITUTED THE GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF THE SAMPLE. (FIGURE 1142) <br />P.ANTOSTEUS CL_ AR I RANGED FFOMI THE 0 - 4 INCH TO 12.1 - 14 : NCH GROUPS „4D ORMED <br />A GRADUAL CURVE WITH THE 0 - 4 INCH, 4.1 - 6 iNCH33 AND 6.1 - 8 INCH GRCUPs CSHSTiTUTIN, <br />THE GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF THE SAMPLE. (FIGURE 142)