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f 1 <br />IV <br />• THE FOOD HABITS OF THE FOUR SPECIES OF TROUT FOUND 9N BOTH DRai?NAGES WERE <br />BASICALLY THE SAME9.WITH THE BULX OF THE DIET BEING MADE UP OF AQUATIC ORGANISINS. <br />A OA1R GROWTH RATE WAS EVIDENT IN THE TROUT OF THE STUDY AREA. THE GROWTH <br />RATE OF SALVO TRUT® WAS GENERALLY BETTER THAN THAT OF OTHER TROUT ZPEC I ES. SALMO <br />GILAE WAS9 ON THE AVERAGES THE SLOWEST GROWING SPECIES OF TROUT FOUND IN THE STREAM. <br />THE GREATEST PER GENT OF THE TROUT IN THE GILA AND MIMBRES RIVERStDm*oRAGES <br />WAS FOUND TO BE UNDER 10 INCHES IN LENGTH. MOST OF THE TROUT (POPULATIONS INDICAT° <br />ED A NORMAL DECLINE IN NUMBERS FROM THE SMALLEST TO THE LARGEST SIZES THE GREATEST <br />PER CENT OF THE ROUGH FISH WAS UNDER 12 INCHES IN LENGTH. <br />THE GREATEST VARIETY OF SPECIES AND LARGEST NUMBERS OF FISH OCCURRED IN STREAMS <br />OF COMPARATIVE HIGH TEMPERATURES AND LOW ELEVATION'So FEW FISH, OTHER THAN TROUT AND <br />DACES OCCURRED ABOVE 79000 FEET. AT 59000 FEET9 SUCKERS CHUBS9 DACES BASS9 CATFISH9 <br />AND OTHERS WERE FOUND. <br />MANY OF THE BEST TROUT STREAMS IN THE STUDY AREA CAN BE BEACHED ONLY-BY TRAIL. <br />THE THREE LAKES STUDIES ARE READILY ACCESSIBLE BY GOOD ROADS. <br />SEVERAL MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE FOR LAKES AND STREAMS IN THE STUDY <br />_ AREA. WHERE PROBLENS EXI.STED AND WHERE IMPROVEMENT OF SPORT FISHING WAS CONSIDERED <br />P08818LEa _ <br />r - <br />SUBY.ITTED_-BY;Z3Z EARL H. HUNTINGTON_ APPROVED BY: <br />TITLE: PROJECT LEADER TITLE: CHIEF OF !F3sH MANAGEMENT <br />DATE: AUGUST 1, 1955 <br />•