Author Institution: Aqua Tech Environmental Consultants, Inc. ; Bowling Green State University, Department of Biological Sciences ; Aqua Tech Environmental Consultants, Inc

Laskowski-Hoke, Robert A.

Norrocky, M. James

Prater, Bayliss L.

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Copyright © 1982 Ohio Acad. Sci. 0030-0950/82/0005-0306 $2.00/0BRIEF NOTEFISHES OF THE UPPER PORTAGE RIVER, OHIO, 1973-1975xROBERT A. LASKOWSKI-HOKE, Aqua Tech Environmental Consultants, Inc., P. O. Box 76, Melmore,OH 44845M. JAMES NORROCKY, Bowling Green State University, Department of Biological Sciences, BowlingGreen, OH 43403BAYLISS L. PRATER, Aqua Tech Environmental Consultants, Inc., P. O. Box 76, Melmore, OH 44845OHIOJ. SCI. 82(5): 306, 1982The objective of the study was to com-plete a qualitative analysis of fish popu-lations in the Portage River from the damnear the town of Elmore, Ohio, upstreaminto the headwaters of the river. Col-lections were made during the years1973-75. Previous studies of the fishes ofthe Portage River have been documentedby Trautman (1957, 1981), Langlois(1965) and Hoke et al. (1979). Collectionsreported by Trautman (1957, 1981) andLanglois (1965) were conducted over theentire length of the river while Hoke et al.(1979) collected from the dam near El-more, Ohio, downstream to the mouth ofthe river at Port Clinton, Ohio.Sixteen stations were sampled in thenorth, south, east and middle branches ofthe Portage River, as well as several smalltributaries. Each station was sampled 1—6times between the months of March andNovember. Figure 1 illustrates the stationlocations for this study and the stationlocations .utilized by Hoke et al. (1979)in the lower Portage River. Collectionswere made using seines of various lengths(2.4—9.2 m) and mesh sizes (0.6—0.95 cm) and electro-fishing techniques.All specimens were preserved in 9% forma-lin. Following identification and enumera-tion, collections were deposited at theOhio State University Zoology Museum,Fisheries Section.A total of 6715 individuals representing44 species and 9 families (table 1) werecollected between 1973 and 1975. Table 2lists the species collected in the PortageRiver based on literature reports from pre-vious surveys and this study.Six species have not been reported fromthe Portage River since Trautman (1957):Notropis anogenus, Moxostoma anisurum,M. macrolepidotum, Noturus miurus, Lota lotaand Etheostoma flabellare. Langlois (1965)reported 6 species not collected from thePortage River by Trautman (1957): Hy-bopsis amblops, Nocomis biguttatus, Notropisheterolepis, Rhinichthys atratulus, Moxostomaduquesnei and Lepomis megalotis. Of these 6species, only Moxostoma dequesnei has beenManuscript received 2 December 1980 and inrevised form 19 April 1982 (#80-61).FIGURE 1. Station locations on the Portage Riversampled during this study and by Hoke et al.(1979).306OhioJ . Sci. PORTAGE RIVER FISHES 307TABLE 1Species list and relative abundance for fish species collected on the upper portions of the Portage River, 1973 — 1975.Family-Genus, species"Total No.IndividualsRelativeAbundance6.7.LepisosteidaeLepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus)ClupeidaeDorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur)EsocidaeEsox a. vermkulatus LesueurEsox lucius LinnaeusCatostomidaeCarpiodes c. cyprinus (Lesueur)Carpiodes c. hinei TrautmanMoxostoma duquesnei (Lesueur)Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque)Hypentelium nigrkans (Lesueur)Catostomus c. commersoni (Lacepede)Minytrema melanops (Rafinesque)CyprinidaeCyprinus carpio (Linnaeus)Carassius auratus (Linnaeus)Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill)Semotilus a. atromaculatus (Mitchill)Phenacobius mirabilis (Girard)Notropis a. atherinoides (Rafinesque)Notropis rubellus (Agassiz)Notropis u. cyanocephalus (Copeland)Notropis c. chrysocephalus (Rafinesque)Notropis spilopterus (Cope)Notropis s. stramineus (Cope)Ericymba buccata CopePimephales p. promelas RafinesquePimephales notatus (Rafinesque)Campostoma a. anomalum (Rafinesque)Campostoma a. pullum (Agassiz)Campostoma a. anomalum x pullumIctaluridaelctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque)lctalurus natalis (Lesueur)lctalurus nebulosus (Lesueur)lctalurus melas (Rafinesque)Noturus flavus (Rafinesque)CyprinodontidaeFundulus notatus (Rafinesque)Fundulus d. menona Jordon and CopelandPercidaePercina maculata (Girard)Etheostoma n. nigrum RafinesqueEtheostoma n. nigrum x eulepisEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque11081752194115173202121636169211377360212919612351552113181846131822111183.0001.0001.0015.0015.0013.0012.0001.0280.0011.0077.0001.0013.0006.0171.0001.7464.0109.0030.0003.0180.0009.0005.0009.2520.0168.1151.0897.0192.0292.1839.0022.0007.0031.0089.0020.0027.0027.0006.0009.0021.0020.0001.0630.0012.0329.0016.0273308 LASKOWSKI-HOKE ET AL.TABLE 1 ContinuedVol. 82Family-Genus, species"Total No.IndividualsRelativeAbundance9. CentrarchidaePomoxis annularis RafinesquePomoxis nigromaculatus (Lesueur)Pomoxis annularis x nigromaculatusAmbloplites r. rupestris (Rafinesque)Micropterus d. dolomieu LacepedeMicropterus s. salmoides (Lacepede)Lepomis cyanellus RafinesqueLepomis m. macrochirus RafinesqueLepomis humilis (Girard)Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus)Lepomis hybridTotal1114246582175471114348.1487.0165.0063.0069.0086.0031.0011.0815.0165.0064.0006.00126715 1.0000*This is a partial list based on other collections.reported from surveys since Langlois(1965). Six additional species, Hybopsisstoreriana, Notropis emiliae, N. volucellus,Etheostoma exile, Percina copelandi andP. shumardi, have not been collected fromthe Portage River since Langlois (1965).It is probable that the 6 species not col-lected since Trautman (1957) and the 11species not collected since Langlois (1965)have been extirpated from the PortageRiver. Of these 17 species, 7 are consideredto be endangered (ODNR 1978) in theState of Ohio: Hybopsis storeriana, Notropisemiliae, N. heterolepis, Lota lota, Etheostomaexile, Percina copelandi and P. shumardi. Inaddition, the species Ichthyomyzon unicuspisreported by Hoke et al. (1979) and Traut-man (1981) and Fundulus diaphanusreported by this study are currently consid-ered to be endangered in the State of Ohio.TABLE 2Fish species reported from surveys of the Portage River.Family-Genus, species* = 1 2 3 4 51. Petromyzontidaelchthyomyzon unicuspis Hubbs and Trautman2. LepisosteidaeLepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus)3. AmiidaeAmia calva Linnaeus4. ClupeidaeDorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur)5. EsocidaeEsox americanus vermkulatus LesueurEsox lucius Linnaeus6. CyprinidaeCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque)Carassius auratus (Linnaeus)Cyprinus carpio LinnaeusErkymba buccata CopeHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque)Hybopsis storeriana (Kirtland)Nocomis biguttatus (Kirtland)X X XX X XX X X XX X X X XX X XX X X X XX X X X XX X X X XX X X X XXX XXXX XXOhioJ. Sci. PORTAGE RIVER FISHESTABLE 2 Continued309Family-Genus, species" 2 3 4 510.11.12.13.14.Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill)Notropis anogenus ForbesNotropis atherinoides RafinesqueNotropts chrysocephalus (Rafinesque)Notropis cornutus (Mitchill)Notropis emiliae (Hay)Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann and EigenmannNotropis hudsonius (Clinton)Notropis rubellus (Agassiz)Notropis spilopterus (Cope)Notropis stramineus (Cope)Notropis umbratilis (Girard)Notropis volucellus (Cope)Phenacobius mirabilis (Girard)Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque)Pimephales promelas RafinesqueRhinkhthys atratulus (Hermann)Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill)CatostomidaeCarpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur)Catostomus commersoni (Lacepede)Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur)lctiobus cyprinellus (Valenciennes)Minytrema melanops (Rafinesque)Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque)Moxostoma duquesnet (Lesueur)Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque)Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur)Ictaluridaelctalurus melas (Rafinesque)lctalurus natalis (Lesueur)Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur)lctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque)Noturus flavus RafinesqueNoturus gyrinus (Mitchill)Noturus miurus JordanPercopsidaePercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum)GadidaeLota lota (Linnaeus)CyprinodontidaeFundulus diaphanus (Lesueur)Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque)AtherinidaeLabidesthes sicculus (Cope)PercichthyidaeMorone chrysops (Rafinesque)CentrarchidaeAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque)Lepomis cyanellus RafinesqueLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus)Lepomis humilis (Girard)Lepomis macrochirus RafinesqueLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque)XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXLITERATURE CITEDAmerican Fisheries Society 1980 A list of thecommon and scientific names of fishes from theUnited States and Canada. Special Publ. No. 12,Amer. Fish. Soc. Washington, D. C. 150 p.Hoke, R. A., M. J. Norrocky and B. L. Prater 1979Fish survey in the lower Portage River, Ohio,1975. OhioJ. Sci. 79: 95-96.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXLanglois, T. H. 1965 Portage River watershed andfishery. Division of Wildlife Ohio Dep. Natur.Resources, Publ. W-130.Ohio Department of Natural Resources 1978 Ohio'sendangered wild animals. Publ. 316.Trautman, M. B. 1957 The fishes of Ohio. The OhioState Univ. Press. Columbus, OH 683 p.Trautman, M. B. 1981 The fishes of Ohio. The OhioState Univ. Press. Columbus, OH 782 p.*1 Trautman 1957. Collections made from 1925-1950.2 Langlois 1965. Collections made from 1940-1963-3 Hoke et al. 1979. Collections made in 1975.4 This study. Collections made from 1973—1975.5 Trautman 1981. Collections made from 1950-1980.** American Fisheries Society 1980.Micropterus dolomieui LacepedeMkropterus salmoides (Lacepede)Pomoxis annularis RafinesquePomoxis nigromaculatus (Lesueur)PercidaeEtheostoma blennioides RafinesqueEtheostoma exile (Girard)Etbeostoma flabellare RafinesqueEtheostoma nigrum RafinesquePerca flavescens (Mitchill)Percina caprodes (Rafinesque)Percina copelandi (Jordan)Percina maculata (Girard)Percina shumardi (Girard)Stizostedion vitreum (Mitchill)SciaenidaeAplodinotus grunniens RafinesqueFamily-Genus, speciesLASKOWSKI-HOKE ET AL.TABLE 2

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