Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 27, 2011 (Last modified Jan 3, 2022)
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Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Hubert, W.A. 1999. Biology and management of channel catfish. Pages 3-22 in E. R. Irwin, W. A. Hubert, C. F. Rabeni, H. L. Schramm, Jr., and T. Coon, editors. Catfish 2000: proceedings of the international ictalurid symposium. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 24, Bethesda, Maryland.

Michaletz, P.H. and J.G. Dillard. 1999. A survey of catfish management in the United States and Canada. Fisheries 24(8): 6-11.

Pitlo, J. Jr. 1997. Response of upper Mississippi River channel catfish populations to changes in commercial harvest regulations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:848-859.

Shephard, S. and D.C. Jackson. 2005. Channel catfish maturation in Mississippi streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25(4):1467-1475.

Shephard, S. and D.C. Jackson. 2006. Difference in channel catfish growth among Mississippi stream basins. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135(5)1224-1229.
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US watershed boundaries from USGS - http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc.html
Canada watershed boundaries from Ministry on Sustainable Resource Management’s Fisheries Inventory Watershed Atlas - http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/gis/GISdata.html
Mexico fish distributions from Freshwater Fishes of Mexico (Miller and Minckley 2006)
US fish distributions from each state's respective fish agency
Additional information may come from peer-reviewed literature, grey literature and agency reports, and scientific collection permit catch records
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Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS), http://www.wdafs.org/officers/officers.htm
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