Mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 27, 2011 (Last modified Feb 17, 2022)
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Mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Benjamin, J.R., Wetzel, L.A., Martens, K.D., Larsen, K. and Connolly, P.J., 2014. Spatio-temporal variability in movement, age, and growth of mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) in a river network based upon PIT tagging and otolith chemistry. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 71(1), pp.131-140.

Alexander, C.A., Peters, C.N., Marmorek, D.R. and Higgins, P., 2006. A decision analysis of flow management experiments for Columbia River mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 63(5), pp.1142-1156.

Watkins, C.J., Ross, T.J., Hardy, R.S. and Quist, M.C., 2015. Precision of hard structures used to estimate age of Mountain Whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni). Western North American Naturalist, 75(1), pp.1-7.

Troffe, P.M., 2000. Fluvial mountain whitefish (prosopium williamsoni) in the Upper Fraser River: a morphological, behavioural, and genetic comparison of foraging forms (Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia).

Wydoski, R.S., 2001. Life history and fecundity of mountain whitefish from Utah streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 130(4), pp.692-698.
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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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