Date of Award

8-1-1970

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Biology

Abstract

Age and growth and other biological characteristics of goldeye were compared at five widely separated stations on Garrison Reservoir in 1968 and 1969* All samples were collected with experimental gill nets fished near the surface. In 1968, goldeye comprised 88.56 percent of the total catch of 1,381 and in 1969, they made up 9^»^2 percent of the total catch of 2,230 fish. It was found that growth patterns of goldeye at the various stations were statistically different, which may be attributed to the differences in turbidity, temperature and possibly other limnoiogic conditions. Although statistical differences were found the actual differences were so small that they would be insignificant to a commercial fisherman.

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