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Our new Biological Assessment is out - Klamath Basin Crisis

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<strong>Klamath</strong> Project Operations <strong>Biological</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong><br />

Endangered Suckers: Sucker Description, Life H<strong>is</strong>tory, Habitat, D<strong>is</strong>tribution, and<br />

Abundance<br />

Shively 2007). Although limited age data on shortnose suckers ex<strong>is</strong>ted at the time<br />

of l<strong>is</strong>ting, length frequency data from the 1980s suggests that th<strong>is</strong> population was<br />

also compr<strong>is</strong>ed of older individuals with little evidence of recruitment events<br />

(Janney and Shively 2007, Janney et al. 2007).<br />

Figure 2-3. Abundance index values for adult Lost River suckers and shortnose suckers<br />

captured in trammel nets in the Williamson River, 1995-2000.<br />

Source: Adapted from Cunningham et al. 2002, Fig. 7, p. 29. Data from 1995-1998 are<br />

rev<strong>is</strong>ed from Perkins et al. (2000 Biology) based on data points that were previously<br />

omitted. Data from 2000 and 2001 are a) from the second set of trammel nets retrieved,<br />

and b) from all trammel nets retrieved. .<br />

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