In cooperation with the on-campus Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, Center researchers delve into the study of native and stocked fish habitat, movement and survival. Research results protect endangered fish populations during critical periods and reduce stocking efforts to match habitat and demand. The fisheries research has also branched into the study of endangered mussels and their in-stream flow needs and the efforts of recovering endangered species.
The following are fisheries assessment-related projects that were activated from 2007 to 2008. For descriptions of specific projects, click on those with links.
(To view pdf files, you will need Adobe Acrobat software for Macintosh, Windows or Linux. This software is available free at www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.) Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assessment Associated with Brook Trout Restoration of Lynn Camp Prong, Great Smoky Mountains (pdf file) S.B. Cook Funding by: Great Smoky Mountains National Park Conservation and Recovery of Barrens Topminnow Populations Exposed to Invasive Mosquitofish (pdf file) H.T. Mattingly and V.S. Neary Funding by: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Distribution, Status and Species-Habitat Relationships of the Rare Barrens Darter, Etheostoma forbesi (pdf file) H.T. Mattingly and D.L. Combs Funding by: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Distribution, Status and Species-Habitat Relationships of the Green Salamander, Aneides aeneus (pdf file) D.L. Combs Funding by: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Evaluation of Fish Stockings into Tennessee Warm Water and Cool Water Reservoirs (pdf file) P.W. Bettoli Funding by: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Habitat Characterization of the Nashville Crayfish (Orconectes shoupi) in Mill Creek Watershed, Tennessee (pdf file) S.B. Cook Funding by: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pallid Sturgeon Movements and Habitat Selection (pdf file) P.W. Bettoli Funding by: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Population, Status and Monitoring of the Imperiled Barrens Topminnow, Fundulus julisia, 2007-2009 (pdf file) H.T. Mattingly Funding by: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Protocol Development for Long-Term Monitoring of Rare Fish at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and Obed Wild and Scenic River (pdf file) S.B. Cook Funding by: National Park Service Reproductive Ecology and Burrowing Behavior of Williams' Crayfish and Meek's Crayfish in Missouri (pdf file) H.T. Mattingly Funding by: Missouri Department of Conservation Reservoir Trout Fisheries (pdf file) P.W. Bettoli Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Science Committee Coordination for the Cumberlands Habitat Conservation Plan (pdf file) H.T. Mattingly The Nature Conservancy