Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) distribution and status by HUC8

Jul 28, 2011 (Last modified Jan 3, 2022)
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Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) status data created for the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society (WDAFS)

Johnson, B.L. and D.B. Noltie. 1996. Migratory dynamics of stream-spawning longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus). Ecology of Freshwater Fish 5(3): 97-107.

Johnson, B.L. and D.B. Noltie. 1997. Demography, growth, and reproductive allocation in stream-spawning longnose gar. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126(3): 438-466.

Kelley, S.W. 2012. Age and growth of spawning longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) in a north central Texas Reservoir. Western North American Naturalist 72(1):69-77.

Klaassen, H.E. and K.L. Morgan. 1974. Age and growth of longnose gar in Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Kansas. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 103(2): 402-405.

Sutton, T.M., A.C. Grier, and L.D. Frankland. 2009. Stock structure and dynamics of longnose gar and shortnose gar in the Wabash River, Indiana-Illinois. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 24(4): 657-666.
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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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