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s ?m 4, SALV INAS FONTINALI- . TNIS SPECIES WAS FOUND ONLY IN THE SOUTH FORK OF WHITEWATEA cnEx. AT THE TIME OF THIS SURVEY9 A LARGE POPULATION WAS FOUND IN THE CREEK. Ti?E 'PECIES HAS BEEN WIDELY PLA*TTECr I'S MANY OF THE STREAMS IN THIS AREA BUT 9 FOR UNKNOWN REAeONS 9 D"D NOT SiJRV, a E EXCEPT IN THE CREEK MENTIONED ABOVE AND SHOWN IN FIGURE 16. 5. MtCROPTOUS SALv DES A SMALL NUMBER OF TH9S SPECIES WAS FOUND IN THE GILA RIVERS THE EAST FORK Of THE GILA RIVERS AND TAYLOR CREEK,, (FIGURE M THEIR NUMBERS IN THESE WATERS WERE N07 SUF- FICIENT ENOUGH TO FURNISH AN APPRECIABLE AMOUNT OF FISHING. BEAR CANYON RESERVOIR SUP- PORTS A FAIR POPULATIONS WHILE SAN SIMON LAKE HAS A VERY GOOD POPULATION OF THIS SPECIES AND EXCEM OVALLY GOOD NATURAL REPRODUCTION. THIS LAKE 13 NOT SHOWN ON THE DISTRIBUTION MAPS BUT IS ON SAN .'S IMON CREEK IN H IDAI.GO COUNTY. 6. MICROPTERUS DOEU THtB SPECIES OCCURRED IN WALL NUMBERS IN THE GILA RIVER AND IN THE EAST FORK OF THI GILA RIVER. (FIGURE 18) THOSE RECOVERED BY SHOCKING SHOWED GOOD GROWTH AND WERE FINE. SPECI'MENB9 WEdGNING.UP TO 2.25 POUNDS. (FIGURE 30) NOT ENOUGH SPECIMENS MERE TAKEN TO MAKE A MORE DETAILED STUDY OF THE- SPECFESo 7. L oIr s mP. BEAR'CANYON RESERVOIR !SUPPORTS A LARGE POPULATION OF LLEEPomIS'MACHROCH1RUS9 AND THEY FURNISH A 001481DERABLE 'AMOUNT OF FISHING9 A8 THE LAKE 13 CLOSE TO CENTERS OF POPULATION AND to Ff.1NED EASILY. THE.POPULATION OFlHIS SPECIES 13 ON THE INCREASE. THERE9.DESPITE. THE HEAVY FISHING PRESSURES AND THERE 18 DANGER OF AN OVERPOPULATION OCCURRING. LROMIS MACHROCHIRUS AND OM 9 CY,?INELLUS WERE FOUND IN SMALL NUMBERS IN ISOLATED POOLS ALONG Tme GILA RIVER. THEIR SIXES WERE GENERALLY SMALL AND THEY FURNGSHED LITTLE OR NO FISHING THERE. (FIGURE 19) 8. A t*U LACU,?, STRI S PUN?US TFtIS SPECIES WAS FOUND IN MOST SECTIONS OF THE MAIN GILA Rind? M THE EAST FORK OF THE GILAS BEAVER CREEKS. AND THAT PART OF THE SAN FRANCISCO FROM GLENWOO9 DOWNSTREAM TO THE ARt20NAg NEW MEXICO LINE. CATCHABLE NUMBERS AND SIZES WERE PRESENT IN THE LOWER PAR'. OF THE SAN FRANCISCO RIVER AND IN THE ROUGHER SECTIONS OF THE GILA RIVER. (FIGURE 20) 9. Ames s_. AME 0 0RU4 M AS AND AME O RUS MAT?AL o s OCCURRED ON SMALL NUMBERS ry :v THE G 4 L. A ROVER 9 EAST FORK OF THE GILA TAYLOR CREEK9 BEAVER CREEK9 SAN FfRANCIsco ROVER AND H BEAR CAN70 RESER1lOIRo (FIGURE F ) THEY FURNISH LITTLE FISH a NG IN THE AREA, THE OF THEM BEING MOSTLY INCIDENTALo - 10. °CATOSTOMUS 1NS,® 3 AND PANTOSTEUS CLARKO THESE SPECIES OF SUCKERS ARE WIDELY DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT TmE GILA DRAINAGE (FIGURE 22) PANTOSTEUS C ARK 19 CALLED THE MOUNTAIN SUCKER9 *AS FOUND ON MANY OF THE COLDER STREAMS WHERE ONLY A FEW9 1!R N©. GATOSTOMUS INSI? GN O S WERE PRESENT. IN :i A RMER WATERS, SUCH AS THE GILA AND THE SAN F?A+?CISCO R!-VERS9 MOUBRES RsVE4, *44-0 TAYLOR CRSEI69 THE POPULATION OF BOTH SPECIES OF SUCKERS WAS EXTREMCLY HIGHo (F6swRE S)