Re: NANFA-- A Previously Proposed National Fish Count

D. Martin Moore (archimed_at_netdoor.com)
Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:06:34 -0500

Jan, sounds like a good regional project in coordination with habitat
restoration. BTW, I still haven't found a good candidate stream.

On 25 Apr 2001, at 10:19, Hoover, Jan J ERDC-EL-MS wrote:

> FYI
>
> There was some discussion recently about NANFA initiating or participating
> in annual fish counts. Apparently The Southestern Fishes Council has also
> promoted this idea, but I do not know how many people if any are doing it:
>
>
> This excerpt is from a history of the SFC written by Donald Cloutman and
> available at http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/organizations/sfc/Sfchistory.htm
>
>
> "In 1988, Steve Platania of the Desert Fishes Council encouraged SFC members
> to establish a systematic 4th of July fish count similar to the Christmas
> bird count. The fish count idea was further discussed at the 1989 meeting.
> The consensus was that if anyone wished to do such a count, they could pick
> their own time and method. Steve Ross stated that he had been conducting a
> "count" since 1975. It is interesting that 1976 SFC Chairman Royal Suttkus
> called upon each member to establish a regular monitoring program at a local
> collecting site to determine long term trends in habitat and status of
> fishes, especially for streams with rich assemblages or unique endemics.
> Such monitoring is in accordance with Objective 5 of the constitution, which
> states, "To encourage members to assume responsibility of monitoring one or
> more local fish populations and their habitats and present report thereon at
> annual meetings."
>
>
>
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Prost,

Martin
Jackson, MS

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