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 2008 to 2009. 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 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 Reservoir (pdf file) P.W. Bettoli Funding by: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Identifying Linkages Between Water Resource Development Activities and Stream Habitat Variables Important to Endangered Species on the Cumberland Plateau (pdf file) H.T. Mattingly Funding by: The Nature Conservancy 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 Recovery Evaluation of Threatened and Endangered Fishes in Abrams Creek, Great Smoky Mountains (pdf file) S.B. Cook Funding by: National Park Service Relationship Between Stream Discharge and Recruitment of the Cumberland Elktoe (Alasmidonta atropurpurea) (pdf file) J.B. Layzer Funding by: The Nature Conservancy 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 Funding by:  Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Swimming Performance of the Endangered Roanoke Logperch, Percina rex (pdf file) V.S. Neary and H.T. Mattingly Funding by:  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service