Chapter 8: Coldwater Fish in Wadeable Streams
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Fish fauna of small coldwater streams of North America typically include trout and salmon, sculpins, minnow, sticklebacks, suckers, or lampreys (Hocutt and Wiley 1986). Standard sampling protocols provided herein apply primarily for trout and salmon because of their sport and commercial values (Johnson et al. 2007). As interest in nonsalmonid species grows, further development of sampling methods for a broader diversity of species is expected. However, many of the following methods can be applied effectively to sampling fish other than trouts and salmon.
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