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<br />580 <br />COMPILATION AND SYNTHESIS OF INFORMATION <br />COLLECTED ON SAN JUAN RIVER FISHES <br />DURING 1990, NEW MEXICO AND UTAH <br />1997 Work Plan <br />New Mexico Department of Game and Fish <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />During 1987 through 1989, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, Utah Division of <br />Wildlife Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and University of New Mexico conducted <br />ichthyofaunal studies (funded by US. Bureau of Reclamation) of the San Juan River between <br />Farmington, New Mexico and Piute Farms Marina, Utah. Data collected during this study were <br />compiled and synthesized in Platania (1990). <br /> <br />During 1990, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and <br />U.S. Fish and Wildlife SelVice continued seasonal monitoring of the San Juan River fish community. <br />In New Mexico, this involved spring, summer, and autunm sampling efforts between Shiprock and <br />Four Corners. Similar efforts were made in Utah. Funding to support these efforts, however, was <br />limited and the work was not as thorough as that accomplished between 1987 and 1989. <br /> <br />No data collected on the fish communities of the San Juan River in 1990 have been compiled or <br />synthesized. Currently, this information resides in field notes, museum records, and trip reports. <br /> <br />Proposed Work: <br /> <br />Data collected by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and New Mexico Department of Game and <br />Fish personnel on San Juan River fish communities during 1990 will be compiled and synthesized. <br />Likely data sources are field notes, preselVed specimens, laboratory specimen identification records, <br />trip reports, museum accession records, and federal-aid reports. <br /> <br />Data will be tabularized in format suitable for inclusion in the computerized San Juan Fish Database. <br />Minimally, this will include sampling technique, effort, species, and number of specimens per species <br />per river mile (RM) per season. Ail physicochemical data recorded will be reported by date and RM. <br />If data, such as specimen length and weight and capture/recapture records, are available, these will <br />be presented and summarized in format suitable for inclusion in the San Juan Fish Database. Ail <br />other information deemed relevant to enhancing the 1990 data set and its use by San Juan River <br />researchers will be summarized. In addition to being a compilation of all relevant data from the 1990 <br />monitoring studies, the report will include a summary of the data. <br /> <br />40 <br />