Publication

Summary of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Population Monitoring Program Results From December 2006

URL: https://webapps.usgs.gov/mrgescp/documents/Dudley%20and%20Platania_2007_Summary%20of%20the%20RGSM%20population%20monitoring%20program%20results%20from%204-8%20December%202006.pdf

Date: 2007/01/23

Author(s): Dudley R.K., Platania S.P.

Publication: Report prepared for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 28 p.

Abstract:

The eleventh sampling effort of the 2006 Rio Grande silvery minnow population monitoring program was conducted between 4-8 December at 20 sites throughout the Middle Rio Grande. Five sites were located in the Angostura Reach, six sites in the Isleta Reach, and nine sites in the San Acacia Reach. A list of collection localities is appended (Table A-1).

Adult and juvenile fish were obtained by rapidly drawing a 3.1 m x 1.8 m small mesh (5 mm) seine through discrete mesohabitats. Larval fish, normally collected with a 1.0 m x 1.0 m fine mesh (2 mm) seine, were not present. Rio Grande silvery minnow were counted and identified to age-class. Other fishes were identified to species and enumerated, but age-class was not determined. Figures illustrating catch rates (number of fish per 100 m2 sampled) were prepared for the ten focal species, including Rio Grande silvery minnow, for the purpose of facilitating comparisons between reaches.