Fish Habitat Status Maps Showing Habitat Threats

[Tim Smith]

New maps for the national fish habitat project showing threatened and high quality habitats in Arkansas and Missouri.

http://fishhabitat.org/images/SFS/mofactsheet.pdf

http://fishhabitat.org/images/SFS/arfactsheet.pdf

[Mitch f]

New maps for the national fish habitat project showing threatened and high quality habitats in Arkansas and Missouri.

http://fishhabitat.org/images/SFS/mofactsheet.pdf

http://fishhabitat.org/images/SFS/arfactsheet.pdf

Seems unbelievable that Missouri's recreational fishing generates 1 billion in revenue

[Gavin]

Interesting resouce Tim but how do you use it? Looked at the maps, then the link.....its all "threats of impact"....dont know the vocabulary, but I looked up 6 stretches just now...3 that suck, 3 that are great....to ones that suck had some yellow or red zones....ones that rock....other end of the scale.

[Tim Smith]

Interesting resouce Tim but how do you use it? Looked at the maps, then the link.....its all "threats of impact"....dont know the vocabulary, but I looked up 6 stretches just now...3 that suck, 3 that are great....to ones that suck had some yellow or red zones....ones that rock....other end of the scale.

http://fishhabitat.org/images/documents/fishhabitatreport_012611.pdf

Here's the full report with explainations about designation criteria etc.

You might look at the blue stretches to find new fishing areas, but I think the main purpose of the report is as an inventory. The purpose of the habitat project is to get more rivers out of the red and into the blue. This serves as a sort of baseline to measure how that's going.

Look at the national map on the full report. Pretty impressive.

[Gavin]

Thanks for the info!