RE: NANFA-- Paddlefish paper

Denkhaus, Robert (Robert.Denkhaus_at_fortworthgov.org)
Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:47:40 -0600

Thanks Jan, I appreciate it! But, I still need to spend some library time.
Maybe I'll wait until one of those 110 degree August days...

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoover, Jan J ERDC-EL-MS
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:36 PM
> To: 'nanfa_at_aquaria.net'
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Paddlefish paper
>
>
> I can send you a copy of the paper.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denkhaus, Robert
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:31 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Paddlefish paper
>
>
> Thanks Jan! Sounds like I'll need to hit the highway and
> visit a decent
> university library. Unfortunately, the DFW area has lots of
> universities
> but
> none with a decent library of biological journals :( Oh, how
> I miss having
> access to the libraries in the Univ. of Wiscosin system -
> they were the
> best!
>
> Rob Denkhaus
> Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hoover, Jan J ERDC-EL-MS
> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:50 PM
> > To: 'nanfa_at_aquaria.net'
> > Subject: RE: NANFA-- Paddlefish paper
> >
> >
> > Rob wrote:
> > >>>I would also be interested in any other "good" paddlefish
> > papers that you
> > might be aware of. A couple of times each year, a fisherman
> > talk about
> > seeing
> > what is usually described as a "weird catfish" in the West
> Fork of the
> > Trinity
> > River which runs through the Fort Worth Nature Center &
> > Refuge. Some of the
> > more detailed descriptions sound a lot like a paddlefish so I
> > would like to
> > see some decent papers describing habitat requirements and
> > other pertinent
> > data.<<<
> >
> > Jan writes:
> >
> > Rob, check this out --
> >
> > Blackwell, B.G., B.R.Murphy, and V.M. Pitman. 1995.
> > Suitability of food
> > resources and physicochemical parameters in the lower Trinity
> > River, Texas,
> > for paddlefish. J. Freshwater Ecol. 10(2): 163-175.
> >
> > Paddlefish in the Trinity are interesting. Their early
> > growth is extremely
> > rapid:
> > 441 mm EFL Age I (vs < 4o0 mm EFL in many pop.s)
> > 747 mm EFL Age II (vs < 600 mm EFL many pop.s)
> > 786 mm EFL Age III
> > Shallow backwaters with rotifer-dominated zooplankton
> > assemblages may be a
> > factor.
> >
> > Also - I believe that Ms Pitman authored some papers on historical
> > occurrences and biology of paddlefish in Texas, but I do not
> > have these on
> > hand.
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