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Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

1992

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Overview Of The Symposium On Walleye Stocks And Stocking, Daryl G. Ellison, William G. Franzin Jan 1992

Overview Of The Symposium On Walleye Stocks And Stocking, Daryl G. Ellison, William G. Franzin

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

Rising angler interest in walleye Stizostedion vitreum, a general decline in natural recruitment in some waters, and increasing demands for stocking have produced a need to evaluate stocking strategies. Such evaluations were the subject of the Walleye Stocks and Stocking Symposium summarized herein. Among walleye stocking evaluations reported in the symposium, 32% of fry stockings, 32% of small-fingerling stockings, and 50% of advanced-fingerling stockings were considered successful. Further improvement in stocking success requires research into the factors that affect survival. Matching stocking times and places to appropriate food resources appears to be a key element in successful introductions of …


Nebraska's Vanishing Species, Greg Wingfield Jan 1992

Nebraska's Vanishing Species, Greg Wingfield

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

Nebraskans are blessed with a rich heritage - friendly, hard-working people, unique landforms and diverse natural resources, including native species of plants and animals. Unfortunately, an irreplaceable part of this heritage, our threatened and endangered species, is vanishing.
Simply stated, a threatened species is one likely to become endangered. An endangered species is one so rare that it is in danger of becoming extinct. Extinction is the loss of a species from this world.