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The Fishes Of The Big South Fork Of The Cumberland River System, Charles Edward Comiskey
The Fishes Of The Big South Fork Of The Cumberland River System, Charles Edward Comiskey
Masters Theses
This thesis reports the results of a survey of the fishes of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River system in Tennessee and Kentucky. This system represents the southeasterly extension of the Cumberland River system.
The survey was conducted from June, 1968, to September, 1969, with the majority of the collecting being made in the summer months of both years. A variety of collecting techniques were employed. These included ten and twenty-foot small mesh seine nets, thirty and sixty-foot bag seines, gill nets and sodium cyanide.
A total of sixty-four collections are included, sixty-one made by the author, and …