Blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) distribution and status by HUC8

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

Buckmeier, D.L. and J.W. Schlechte. 2009. Capture efficiency and size selectivity of channel catfish and blue catfish sampling gears. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 29(2): 404-416.

Eggleton, M.A. and H.A. Schramm Jr. 2004. Feeding ecology and energetic relationships with habitat of blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, and flathead catfish, Pylodictis olivaris, in the lower Mississippi river, USA. Environmental Biology of Fishes 70:107-121.

Garrett, D., and C.F. Rabeni 2011. Intra-annual movement and migration of flathead catfish and blue catfish in the lower Missouri River and tributaries. Pages 495-509 in P. H. Michaletz and V. H. Travnichek, editors. Conservation, ecology, and management of catfish: the second international symposium. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 77, Bethesda, Maryland.

Graham, K. 1999. A review of the biology and management of blue catfish. Pages 37-49 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.

Laughlin, T.W., G.W. Whitledge, D.C. Oliver, and N.P. Rude. 2016. Recruitment sources of channel and blue catfishes inhabiting the middle Mississippi River. River Research and Applications 32(8):1808-1818.
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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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