7166

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7166
• Author: Miller, W. H., et al.
• Title: Yampa River Fishes Study
• USFW Year: 1982.
• USFW - Doc Type: Final Report.
• Copyright Material: NO

Data Storage, Retrieval and Analysis
, The MANAGE data base management system developed by the Western
Energy and Land Use Team (WELUT) in Fort Collins, Colorado was adapted
for the project. This system provided storage, retrieval and mani-
pulation of the large volumes of data generated by the project. In
addition, data analysis capability was integrated into the MANAGE system
by utilizing some elements of the IMSL (International Mathematical and
Statistical Library) Package (Shumate et al. 1981).
Field data were organized into four data sets in the Vernal data
base. Data sheets and the following data sets were developed:
1. PHYSICALS Physical and chemical data, including water
and air temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity,
salinity, turbidity, and stream width and depth.
2. CATCH: Catch data for fishes; included sample time, duration,
gear type, habitat, area sampled, depth, velocity, and
substrate for each fish species (endangered and nonendangered)
by age groups.
3. RARE: Included sample time, duration, gear type, habitat,
area sampled, depth, velocity, substrate type, sex, length,
weight, tag size and number, and macroscopic external parasite
load for each endangered or threatened fish captured.
4. RADIO: Movement data for radiotagged fish, including observa-
tion time, distances of movements, type of movement, depth,
velocity and substrate of preferred habitat, water flow and
temperature.
MANAGE accepts alphanumeric codes. Fish species and other observa-
tions were coded on the data sheets as letters rather than numerals. As
an example, the substrate 'sand' was coded as 'SA'. This facilitated
field recording. Numeric information was also entered directly.
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