7369

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7369
• Author: Marsh, P. C. and W. L. Minckley.
• Title: Radiotagging Razorback Suckers
• USFW Year: 1989.
• USFW - Doc Type: Gila River, Arizona 1988-1989.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Appendix 2. Tracking histories of nine radio-lmpl-anted razorback
suckers stocked into the Glla River, Arizona, 12 October 1988.: All fish
were hatchery propagated, reared at Dexter National Flsh Hatchery, New
Mexico. All contacts are included: specific habitat information was
generally not taken on day of release.
No. 700-2 Transmitter functional and fish alive i?00 hr IZ Oct 1988.
Located 0.1 km below release site 1630 hr same day in mid-
. channel of sandy run; w = 9 m, z = 0.2 m, v = 0.15 m/sec,
sand substrate.
Located i.5 km downstream 0910 hr 14 October 1988 in mid-
, channel of sandy run; w = 12 m, z = 0.25 m, v = 0.1:5 m/sec.
Transmitter only recovered 1.5 km downstream from release
site 20 October 1988, approximately 5 m from stream edge:
small tooth marks on transmitter case.
No. 702-2 Transmitter functional and fish alive 1700 hr 12 Oct 1988
Located 0.2 km downstream 1630 hr same day in deepwater
-- eddy adjacent to main .channel; w = 10 m, z = 1.2 m, z =
0.40 m/sec, substrate sand.
Located 2.0 km downstream from release site 14 October 1988
In mid-channel of sandy run, w = 12 m, z = 0.15 m. v = 0.2
m/sec, substrate-sand.
Located 7.5 km downstream-from release site 20 October 1988
along margin of sandy run; stream w = 14 m, z = 0.4 m, v
0.15 m/sec.
Located same location 11 Novemeber 1988; fish presumed dead.
Transmitter contacted 18 March and 02 May at same location;
nat recovered; fate of fish unknown.
No subsequent contact.
No. 705-2 Transmitter functional and fish alive 1700 hr 12 Oct 1988.
Located 0.1 km downstream 1630 hr same day in .deep water
adJacent tv main channel; stream w = 9 m, z = 1.1 m, v =
'0.7 m/sec, substrate sand.
No~subsequent contact.
No. 706-2 Transmitter functional and fish alive 1700 hr 12 Oct 1988.
Transmitter only recovered 7.2 km downstream from release
site 18 March 1988, near shore of gravelly run; stream w =
14 m, z = 0.15 m, v =-0.15 m/sec, substrate gravel/'sand.
No. 70?-2 Transmitter functional and fish alive 1700 hr 12 Oct 1988.
No subsequent contact.
No. 709-2 Transmitter functional and fish alive 1700 hr 12 Oct 1988.
Located 37.2 km downstream from release site l8 March 1988;
near cut-bank, margin of swift run', w = 5 m, z = 0.5 m, v =
0.6 m/sec, substrate sand and coarse gravel; fish presumed
dead; cause of mortality unknown.