Aquatic Database Acquisition

A report

For the

Southeast Aquatic Resource Partnership

&

South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative

By

John Kauffman

March 28, 2012

The publication was partially funded by the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (grant #______) and Multistate Conservation Grant Program (grant #______), a program supported with funds from the Sport Fish Restoration Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and jointly managed with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

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Aquatic Database Acquisition

Contents Summary ...... 3 Introduction ...... 3 Overview ...... 3 MARIS ...... 4 Objectives ...... 5 Methods...... 5 Results and Discussion ...... 6 Status of the SARP Aquatic Data Compilation...... 6 SALCC Fish Collection Data Summary ...... 9 Database Access ...... 9 Conclusions ...... 9 Acknowledgments ...... 10

Table of Tables Table 1. Agencies contacted for fish and invertebrate data...... 11 Table 2. Status of states databases collected by March 12, 2012. Dates are the date the files were forwarded to the MARIS coordinators for conversion...... 12 Table 3. Collection agencies and assessment of data types in database...... 13 Table 4. Status of metadata files...... 14 Table 5. SALCC states catchments and number with fish collections separated by ecoregion and stream size...... 15 Table 6. SALCC states catchments and number with fish samples sorted by state and stream size...... 16 Table 7. SALCC data available for analyses by stream size...... 18 Table 8. State contacts that have provided data or are sources of data for the SARP region...... 19 Table 9. Fish species documented in the SALCC state collection data...... 22

Table of Figures Figure 1. States in the Southeast Aquatic Resource Partnership...... 26

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Aquatic Database Acquisition

Summary This report documents the status of the compilation of fish and aquatic macroinvertebrate databases into the Multistate Aquatic Resource Information System (MARIS) to help assess ecological responses to flow alteration in the SARP region. As of March 2012, all of SARP states contributed fish community data other than Texas and Kentucky. These data will be available from MARIS by the end of 2012. In the meantime, the data are available from SARP. Marcoinvertebrate data was also collected from most states and will be added to the MARIS database in the future.

Introduction One of the priorities identified in the Southern Instream Flow Research Agenda was the need for a large aquatic database that can be used to analyze the impacts of altered flow alteration on the ecological health of southern rivers. Historic analyses are usually limited in geographic scope thereby preventing large scale analyses and applicability outside the local area. This project is intended to develop a regional aquatic database that would be widely available for analyses and advancing instream flow science.

Overview Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) form a national network of partnerships working collaboratively across jurisdictions and political boundaries to address landscape-style changes and impacts to America's land, water, wildlife and cultural resources by leveraging and sharing science capacity. The South Atlantic LCC is partnering with the Southeast Aquatic Resource Partnership (SARP) to ensure that the rich aquatic resources of their region are protected from impacts of future population growth and climate change. SARP has identified flow alteration as a priority threat and is implementing the Southern Instream Flow Research Agenda for the SALCC to advance regional instream flow science (http://southeastaquatics.net/programs/sifn). SARP is under contract to the SALCC to provide instream flow resources to support scientifically credible instream flow standards and management practices and to direct future instream flow research efforts by the SALCC and its partners.

The Southern Instream Flow Research Agenda identifies basic information necessary to develop science- based instream flow resources. It follows the framework laid out in the Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA; http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/eloha) to relate ecological responses to flow alteration. SARP has guided work of many partners over the past two years to implement the Research Agenda in the SALCC region. Biologists, hydrologists, researchers, managers, and others have contributed in many ways to develop the basic water resource information. These resources include:

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A regional river classification framework that includes hydrologic classes; A regional assessment of the risk of flow alteration from water consumption, impervious surfaces, and dams; A compilation of fish and aquatic macroinvertebrate databases to help assess ecological responses to flow alteration; Hydrologic models to estimate the degree and type of flow alteration in a given stream or river; An initial set of hypothetical flow-ecology relationships based on regional study results; and Priority aquatic conservation areas to be addressed in future research and protection effort

This information provides an integrated body of scientific information to support recommendations for instream flow protection, as well as for other water resource issues in the region.

MARIS Compilation of a regional database was conceived as a “Data Sprint” where fish community and other aquatic databases from the Southeast Aquatic Resource Partnership (SARP) states would be made accessible and updated routinely on a publicly accessible portal. All Southern states have databases for fish and macroinvertebrates that are collected for a variety of water resource programs. The development of the Multistate Aquatic Resource Information System (MARIS) facilitated the compilation of these various data sources with a standardized data template and existing portal that was vetted by the National Fish Habitat Action Plan.

MARIS is a platform hosted by the US Geological Survey to share existing state fisheries data across the US. The data are owned by the states, uploaded to a programmer and transformed into a common format that is geo-referenced for use with other programs such as water quality data, land use, ecoregions, etc. Data that can be incorporated into the database includes

geo-referencing data, event information such as sampling objectives (i.e. targeted, general), collection gear, total catch and weight by species, fish size and age tables, and water quality characteristics.

Complete details on MARIS are available at http://www.marisdata.org/.

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Objectives The objectives of this project were to acquire aquatic data from the SARP states (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA, AND WV) and facilitate entry and updates of those data into MARIS. The results of this report will focus on the states in the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (VA, NC. SC, GA, FL, and, AL).

Methods Within a state several agencies often collect fish and invertebrate data with the two most common being the wildlife resource and the water quality agencies. Appropriate agencies were contacted in each state and questioned as to the availability of data from their and other agencies aquatic data collection efforts (Table 1). During those contacts the MARIS database was introduced and the potential benefits for each state described. Each contact was queried as to the status of their database (i.e. existing, centralized etc.) and the willingness to have it posted on a readily available centralized system. Revealing locations of threatened and endangered species was a common concern that was discussed with each state. All states opted to exclude site specific geo-referenced information about threatened and endangered species.

After aquatic data from each state was received it was reviewed to determine if there were any readily apparent problems with species names, format, etc. If so, the state contact was notified and problems discussed and resolved. As expected, data submitted were in a wide variety of formats. Some data were arranged with each collection site as a single row and species data recorded horizontally in columns, while other states submitted the aquatic data as location by columns and species by rows.

Data were temporarily stored on a centralized file sharing system and made available to the MARIS coordinator (Andrew Loftus) and programmer (Nancy Nate). Nancy Nate is developing a template for each state to convert their data into the MARIS format. This will allow future collection updates to be easily added to MARIS. If any problems were identified by either MARIS contacts the problems were discussed with the state and resolved.

The aquatic data were in demand before it was available on MARIS. The aquatic databases for the SALCC states were converted into the MARIS format and made available on a public server (see discussion below for location). Data were geo-referenced and summarized by stream size, ecoregions, and state. In several cases, multiple requests were made to a state for their data and SARP served as the centralized source and shared the states data with other researchers as needed. Metadata are an important resource to support use of the compiled database.

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Metadata forms were sent to agencies submitting the data. Data cannot be entered into MARIS unless accompanied by a metadata file. The metadata includes the following information:

Contact information Format of data i.e. Access database, Excel spreadsheet Description and purpose of database Geographical boundaries QA/QC for data entry Spatial data organization Spatial data reference

Work on the Potomac and Susquehanna Rivers (ICPRB personal communication and Nature Conservancy 2010) demonstrated that mussel, crawfish and other aquatic invertebrate data in addition to fish data could be used to analyze the impacts of altered flows on aquatic resources. At the present time MARIS is not formatted to present invertebrate data but the existing format can be altered to accept invertebrate collection data. As part of this project invertebrate data was collected for later entry into MARIS. Formatting of that data is to be determined but is now available for future use.

Results and Discussion Aquatic data have been collected from 13 of the 15 states in the Southern Instream Flow Network and are ready to be included in MARIS, including the six states in the SALCC region.

Status of the SARP Aquatic Data Compilation Status of the individual states is described below and listed in Table 2.

Alabama Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resource provided fish data, which were reviewed and are pending entry into MARIS. Personnel specific to mussel, crawfish and invertebrate data were contacted but data were not obtained from those contacts. Additional contacts need to be conducted with those personnel.

Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) provided fish and invertebrate data that have been reviewed and is pending entry into MARIS. Mussel data still needs to be obtained.

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Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission provided fish and invertebrate data and that data have been posted for the MARIS entry.

Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources fish data are available on MARIS and the invertebrate data (GA Environmental Protection Division) pending entry into MARIS. Mussel data has been requested and contacts need to be reestablished.

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources has a fish database that is being reviewed by state personnel and should be available in March 2012. Mussel data are available and has been requested but not provided to date. (Full agency name) DEQ data are available and also has not been provided as of this report.

Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries fish and Dept. of Environmental Quality invertebrate data have been transferred to the MARIS coordinators

Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks provided fish collection data through the MS Museum of Natural Science. A cooperative agreement needs to be signed by MARIS. DEQ was contacted regarding invertebrate data but has not responded as of this report.

Missouri Dept. of Conservation data collection is being handled by Annis Gust (Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership) under a previous agreement with USGS for a GAP analysis.

North Carolina provided data from four different sources within the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources. Fish data have been provided by Todd Ewing within DENR and those contacts are listed later in this document. Invertebrate data have been provided by Eric Fleek of DENR.

Oklahoma fish collection data has been provided by OK Wildlife Resource Conservation (WRC). Additional data are available from (whole name) DEQ, Water Resource Board and the Conservation Commission but has not been obtained to date. Fish collection data from DEQ and the WRC may overlap.

South Carolina Dept. Of Natural Resources provided fish data and the Dept. of Health and Environmental Conservation.

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Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency fish data have been previously collected by Robert Burgholzer VA Dept. of Environmental Quality and are ready for MARIS. Mussel, crayfish and other invertebrate data are available and were requested by not provided. Contacts were not reestablished due to time constraints.

Texas Parks and Wildlife is in the process of reorganizing their data but this has not been completed. A database titled “Fishes of Texas” is available from the University of Texas and requested but there was no response to the request. Fish data are also available from the EPA REMAP collections but the holder of that data has not been found. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is reported to have fish and invertebrate data and those sources were contacted but did not respond.

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ) fish and invertebrate data were obtained and posted on Dropbox. The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) data will be available in March and should increase substantially the data available from VA especially for mainstem and large rivers. The DGIF data will not include the VA Commonwealth University (VCU) INSTAR data which has fish and invertebrate data. Dr. Greg Garman (VCU) was not willing to release that data to an open source.

West Virginia fish and invertebrate data were obtained from Dept. of Environmental Protection. WV Dept. of Natural Resources was not willing to release their fish, mussel and crayfish data to an open source.

Collection efforts vary widely from species or taxa specific surveys to community assessment surveys (Table 3). Sampling techniques also varied from electrofishing (EF) and seining to target specific netting (i.e. large mesh gill nets which will complicate any data analyses). Mixed purpose collection data are in the same database in most states records and can be sorted by collection methods. Numbers collected of each species was the most common entry but in some cases only presence/absence information is available.

MARIS is formatted to report length and age data but in most cases the states centralized system did not have length or age information as part of their files. Length data were available in some cases but age data were not incorporated into the centralized state databases (Table 3). Length and age information probably resides in the field files.

Metadata files have been much harder to obtain. Status of those files is listed in Table 4.

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SALCC Fish Collection Data Summary Databases for the SALCC states were compiled into the MARIS format and summarized. Within each state not all streams drain into the Atlantic slope and some catchments are in two or more states therefore numbers may differ between tables. Most of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina are within the SALCC only a small portion of Alabama, Florida and Virginia are within the SALCC boundaries.

Table 5 summarizes the catchments and collections by ecoregions and stream size for the SALCC region. Over 3300 stream segments have been sampled and are available for analyses (Figure 1). This information can be screened for sampling objective and collection techniques using the associated fields in the database. The Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain and Southeast Plains has the lowest proportions of streams sampled but are still represented by almost 1200 collections. The results by state and stream size are listed in Table 6. Additional data is expected from VA soon. For the SALCC region, a little more than 1700 collections have been recorded and available for flow-ecology analyses (Table 7).

Contact information for each state is listed in Table 8.

Over 450 fish species and taxa (genus and hybrids) were recorded from the SALCC states (Table 9).

Database Access The aquatic data compiled for this project are being converted to the MARIS database and should be available at www.marisdata.org by September of 2012. In the meantime, SARP is providing access to the data. Please submit a data request at https://docs.google.com/a/southeastaquatics.net/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRWdmZjNzYzT0J vUE1HX3drMl9fSGc6MQ

Conclusions Additional work needs to be completed on obtaining the metadata files as well as additional data on invertebrate collections within those states. Tennessee and Arkansas data were finalized for MARIS entry. Data from eight Southeast states that were not originally available for MARIS have been collected and are in various stages of conversion to that format. Data from Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas are available but additional contacts will need to be developed and established. The state sources for fish and invertebrate information are listed in Table 8 with their contact information for a follow up to this project.

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Through this effort and funding a significant amount of data are now be available for inclusion in MARIS. Additional data from states outside the SALCC boundaries is available and will be converted to the MARIS format and also available for analyses. These data will greatly facilitate the transfer of information and allow analyses of flow-ecology relationships on a larger scale than previously attempted. It will also ease the burden on the states for requests for information.

Acknowledgments Many people participated in the collection of this data and Table 8 provides only a partial list. The MARIS program provided the platform and the staff of Andrew Loftus and Nancy Nate to facilitate the transfer of this information into a single system. Robert Burgholzer provided the original “Data Sprint” concept and impetus to pursue this work. Biologists in each state provided the necessary contacts for their states and assisted greatly in the collection of the data. Mary Davis and Scott Robinson of SARP were responsible for initiating this contract. Emily Watson provided the SARP map and Melanie Kaeser provided the analyses of data within the SALCC states. Rua Mordecai, SALCC Science Coordinator, provided support to bring this project to fruition.

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Table 1. Agencies contacted for fish and invertebrate data. AL DCNR Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources AL DEM Dept. of Environmental Management AL WFFD Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division. Part of AL DCNR AR GFC Arkansas Game and Fish Commission AR DEQ Department of Environmental Quality FL FWC Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission FL DEP Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection GA WRD GA Wildlife Resources Division GA EPD GA Environmental Protection Division GA DNR GA Dept. of Natural Resources KY F&W KY Fish and Wildlife Resources KY DEQ KY Dept. of Environmental Quality LA WLF La Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries LA DEQ LA Dept. of Environmental Quality MS DWFP MS Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks MS MNH MS Museum of Natural History MS DEQ MS Dept. of Environmental Quality NC WRC NC Wildlife Resources Commission NC DENR NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources OK DWC OK Dept. of Wildlife Conservation OK DEQ OK Dept. of Environmental Quality OK WRB OK Water Resources Board OK CC OK Conservation Commission SC DNR SC Dept. of Natural Resources SC DHEC SC Dept. of Health and Environmental Conservation TN TWRA TN Wildlife Resources Agency TN DEC TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation TX TPWD TX Parks and Wildlife Department TX CEQ TX Commission on Environmental Quality VA DGIF VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries VA DEQ VA. Dept. of Environmental Quality VA VCU VA Virginia Commonwealth University WV DNR WV Dept. of Natural Resources WV DEP WV Dept. of Environmental Protection

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Table 2. Status of states databases collected by March 12, 2012. Dates are the date the files were forwarded to the MARIS coordinators for conversion. Pending signifies that the files are ready to install on MARIS. SC crayfish data is being compiled and should be available at the end of 2012.

State Biological Fish Targeted Invert Crayfish Mussels Assessment community fish survey survey AL Pending DCNR AR 1/11/12 Pending 1/11/12 DEQ DEQ FL Pending 12/20/2011 FWC DEP GA In MARIS KY LA 2/19/2012 12/1/2011 2/19/12 DEQ WLF DEQ MO MS NC 12/5/2011 12/5/2011 1/3/12 12/5/2011 12/5/2011 12/5/2011 DENR WRC WRC trout DENR WRC WRC OK 12/06/11 DWC SC Pending 1/17/2012 Available DNR DHEC Dec. 2012 TN Pending TX VA 12/13/2011 12/13/2011 DEQ DEQ WV 12/5/2011 12/5/2011 DEP DEP

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Table 3. Collection agencies and assessment of data types in database. Community, diversity and stream health are not targeted for specific species.

Fish Crayfish Mussels Macroinvertebrates State Agency Type Numerical Lengths Gear AL WFFD Community Abundance No Seine and BP EF AR GFC Abundance No Mixed DEQ Stream health Abundance No Abundance FL FWC Imperiled fish Abundance infrequent Mixed FWC Survey Abundance No Mixed DEP Abundance GA WRD Mixed Abundance No Mixed EPD Abundance KY F&W Pending LA DWF Community Abundance Infrequent Mixed MS Mus Nat History Collection recordsAbundance No Mixed NC WRC Coldwater Pres/absence EF WRC Diversity Abundance Infrequent EF AbundanceAbundance DENR Stream health Abundance No EF DENR Abundance OK DWC collection recordsAbundance No Mixed SC DNR Community Abundance No BP EF TN WRA Mixed Abundance No Mixed TX VA DGIF Mixed Pending Mixed DEQ Stream health Abundance No EF Abundance WV DEP Stream health Abundance No EF Abundance

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Table 4. Status of metadata files. Dates are when the metadata files were reviewed and sent to the MARIS coordinators. GA is in MARIS and has submitted metadata.

State Fish Invertebrate community survey AL 12/19/2011 DCNR AR 3/9/12 DEQ 3/9/12 DEQ FL 12/29/2011 FWC GA KY LA 12/19/2011 WLF MS MI NC 2/6/2012 DENR OK SC

TN TX VA

WV 12/22/2011 12/22/2011 DEP DEP

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Table 5. SALCC states catchments and number with fish collections separated by ecoregion and stream size.

ECOREGION_L3 SIZE by Drainage Area Total # Catchments # Catchments with Fish Samples 45 Piedmont Headwater 24,858 152 Creek 20,501 705 Small River 6,236 196 Med. Tributary River 2,794 56 Med. Mainstem River 1,837 55 Large River 565 22 Great River 32 0 TOTAL 56,823 1,186 63 Middle Atlantic Headwater 7,798 8 Coastal Plain Creek 7,290 67 Small River 2,327 19 Med. Tributary River 775 5 Med. Mainstem River 583 1 Large River 218 1 Great River 106 2 TOTAL 19,097 103 65 Southeastern Plains Headwater 44,958 99 Creek 35,765 555 Small River 11,261 185 Med. Tributary River 5,462 50 Med. Mainstem River 1,910 76 Large River 1,371 88 Great River 530 14 TOTAL 101,257 1,067 66 Blue Ridge Headwater 2,356 28 Creek 1,639 117 Small River 344 18 Med. Tributary River 98 9 Med. Mainstem River 116 5 Large River 20 0 Great River 0 0 TOTAL 4,573 177 75 Southern Coastal Plain Headwater 7,891 24 Creek 8,612 58 Small River 3,169 79 Med. Tributary River 1,430 53 Med. Mainstem River 1,133 115 Large River 224 19 Great River 322 42 TOTAL 22,781 390

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Table 6. SALCC states catchments and number with fish samples sorted by state and stream size.

STATE SIZE by Drainage Area Total # Catchments # Catchments with Fish Samples AL Headwater 18733 48 Creek 14441 345 Small River 4637 148 Med. Tributary River 2052 35 Med. Mainstem River 507 3 Large River 649 24 Great River 466 0 TOTAL 41485 603

FL Headwater 6724 45 Creek 7662 130 Small River 2788 101 Med. Tributary River 1406 61 Med. Mainstem River 899 89 Large River 188 21 Great River 96 19 TOTAL 19763 466

GA Headwater 19912 168 Creek 16295 556 Small River 5163 148 Med. Tributary River 2071 101 Med. Mainstem River 1216 176 Large River 451 85 Great River 164 37 TOTAL 45272 1271

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Table 6 (cont.)

STATE SIZE by Drainage Area Total # Catchments # Catchments with Fish Samples NC Headwater 15,339 19 Creek 12,885 487 Small River 4,638 135 Med. Tributary River 1,745 5 Med. Mainstem River 987 0 Large River 457 0 Great River 0 0 TOTAL 36,051 646

SC Headwater 9,767 16 Creek 8,934 72 Small River 2,803 14 Med. Tributary River 1,154 1 Med. Mainstem River 650 0 Large River 284 1 Great River 199 2 TOTAL 23,791 106

VA Headwater 13,250 54 Creek 10,496 119 Small River 2,730 38 Med. Tributary River 1,552 27 Med. Mainstem River 1,077 11 Large River 355 3 Great River 9 0 TOTAL 29,469 252

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Table 7. SALCC data available for analyses by stream size.

# Catchments Total # with Fish LCC SIZE by Drainage Area Catchments Samples South Atlantic LCC Headwater 44,696 172 Creek 38,693 880 Small River 12,813 274 Med. Tributary River 5,316 78 Med. Mainstem River 3,251 168 Large River 1,218 97 Great River 374 42 TOTAL 106,361 1,711

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Table 8. State contacts that have provided data or are sources of data for the SARP region.

CONTACTS AND THEIR ROLES 3/12/2012

State Contact Role Organization Phone Email

AL Andrew Henderson fish ibi DCNR [email protected]

Dr Paul Johnson mussel data DCNR 334 -683-5000 [email protected]

Dusty Miller invert data Al Dept. of Environmental Mgmt. (334) 260-2712 [email protected]

Jo Lewis data contact DCNR state lands 334-242-3484 [email protected]

AR Jeff Quinn 877 -470-3309 [email protected] Chris Racey

Daniel Milliken data manager TNC [email protected] Shannon Brewer mussel data [email protected]

Tate Wentz invertebrate DEQ (501) 682-0661 [email protected]

Jim Wise fish health DEQ (501) 682-0662 [email protected]

FL Eric Nagid FL Wildlife Commission 352 -955-3220 x 102 [email protected]

Ted Hoehn data contact FL Wildlife Commission 850-488-8792 [email protected]

Kim Bonvechio Data contact FL Wildlife Commission 912-807-0112. [email protected]

Gary Warren invertebrate FL Wildlife Commission 352-955-3220 x110 [email protected] Devan Cobb invertebrate FL DEP 50-245-8542 [email protected].

Stream Survey KA Patti Lanford Manager GADNR-Wrd 770-761-3011 [email protected] Thom Litts data contact GDNR - WRD

Jason Wisniewski mussel data GDNR - WRD 706.557.3217 [email protected] Michele Brossett invert GDNR Env. Protection Div. 404.675.1683 [email protected] Cody Jones invert GDNR-Env. Protection Div. 404.675.1659 [email protected]

KY Ron Brooks SARP Rep KY Fish and Wildlife 502 -564-7109x4466 [email protected] Emily Watson Ohio River ORSANCO [email protected]

Jeff Thomas Ohio River ORSANCO 513 -624-3683 x111 [email protected]

Jeff Ross KY Fish and Wildlife 502–564-7109 X 4455 [email protected]

John Brumley KY DEQ Div of Water 502-564-3410 x4861 [email protected]

Monte McGregor KY Fish and Wildlife 502-573-6991 [email protected]

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LA Brain Alford 225 -765-2332 [email protected]

Heather Finley [email protected] Chris Piehler DEQ 225 -219-3611 [email protected]

Stephanie Braden DEQ invert data 225-219-3187 [email protected] Michael Brainard SARP Rep MS Dept. Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks 228-523-4057 [email protected]

MS Dennis Riecke 601 -432-2207 [email protected] Matt Roberts MS Museum of Natural Science 601-354-7303 [email protected]

Henry Folmar MS DEQ 601-961-5529 [email protected]

Joelle Carnehy MS Museum of Natural Science [email protected] Natalie Segrest data mgr. DEQ` [email protected] Valerie Alley. data mgr. DEQ` [email protected]

NC Wildlife Resources Comm., Div. of

NC Chris Goudreau Inland Fisheries 828-652-4360 ext. 223 [email protected] 919-=715- Jim Mead DENR 5428 [email protected] Cat Burns TNC

Erik Fleek data contact DENR 919.743.8469 [email protected] Bryn Tracy data contact DENR- DWQ data 919-743-8474 [email protected] Judith Ratcliffe DENR Heritage Program 919-715-7807 [email protected]

Jay Sauber data contact DENR Water Quality 919-743-8416 [email protected]

Todd Ewing Wildlife Resource Comm (828) 874-0494 [email protected]

OK Shannon Brewer mussel data [email protected]

Greg Summers Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife Conservation 405 -325-7288 [email protected]

Randy Parham OK DEQ 405-702-1026 [email protected]

Jason Childress OK WRB 405-530-8800 [email protected]

Shannon Phillips invertebrate OK Cons. Commission 405-522-4728 [email protected]

SC Bill Poly SC DNR Div of Inland Fisheries 803 -353-8232 [email protected]

Mark Scott database mgr. SC DNR Div of Inland Fisheries 864-654-6346 X14 [email protected] James Glover Section mgr. SC Dept. Health and Env. Control 803-898-4081 [email protected]

David Eargle Aq Biologist SC Dept. Health and Env. Control 803-898-4145 [email protected]

TN Frank Fiss [email protected] Susan Lanier data contact 615-781-6540 [email protected] Matthew Granstaff mussel Army Corp of Engineers 615-736-7857 [email protected]

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TN Dept. of Environment and Richard Cochran inverts Conservation 615-532-0997 [email protected] David Withers crayfish TWRA 615-532-0441 [email protected]

TX Tim Birdsong SARP Rep Texas Parks and Wildlife Department 512 -389-4744 [email protected] Kevin Mayes Texas Parks and Wildlife Department 512-754-6844 ext. 225 [email protected] Bill Harrison Texas CEQ '[email protected]'

Dean Hendrickson Univ of Texas fishes of TX website (512) 471-9774 [email protected]

VA Jim Husband Information manager VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries

Brad Fink VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries 804-367-1779 [email protected]

Jason Hill invert data DEQ 540-562-6724 [email protected] Steve McIninch Instar program VCU (804) 827-0090 [email protected]

WV Dan Cincotta WV DNR 304 -637-0245 [email protected] 304- 926-0499 Ext:

John Wirts WV DEP 1060 [email protected]

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Table 9. Fish species documented in the SALCC state collection data.

Genus/Species Genus/Species Genus/Species Genus/Species Acantharchus pomotis Esox americanus Lepomis microlophus Noturus eleutherus Achirus lineatus Esox americanus vermiculatus Lepomis miniatus Noturus flavipinnis Acipenser oxyrinchus Esox masquinongy Lepomis punctatus Noturus funebris Agonostomus monticola Esox niger Lepomis sp. Noturus furiosus Alosa aestivalis Esox sp. Lepomis spp. Noturus gilberti Alosa alabamae Etheostoma artesiae Leptolucania ommata Noturus gyrinus Alosa chrysochloris Etheostoma blennioides Lophogobius cyprinoides Noturus insignis Alosa mediocris Etheostoma brevirostrum Lucania goodei Noturus leptacanthus Alosa pseudoharengus Etheostoma brevispinum Lucania parva Noturus nocturnus Alosa sapidissima Etheostoma caeruleum Lutjanus griseus Noturus sp. Ambloplites ariommus Etheostoma chlorosoma Luxilus albeolus Oligoplites saurus Ambloplites cavifrons Etheostoma chuckwachatte Luxilus cerasinus Oncorhynchus mykiss Ambloplites rupestris Etheostoma collis Luxilus chrysocephalus Opsanus beta Ameiurus brunneus Etheostoma colorosum Luxilus chrysochephalus Opsopoedus emiliae Ameiurus catus Etheostoma coosae Luxilus coccogenis Opsopoeodus emiliae Ameiurus melas Etheostoma davisoni Luxilus cornutus Oreochromis aureus Ameiurus natalis Etheostoma douglasi Luxilus zonistius Orthopristis chrysoptera Ameiurus nebulosus Etheostoma edwini Lythrurus ardens Other freshwater species Ameiurus platycephalus Etheostoma flabellare Lythrurus atrapiculus Other saltwater species Ameiurus serracanthus Etheostoma fricksium Lythrurus bellus Paralichthys albigutta Ameiurus sp. Etheostoma fusiforme Lythrurus fasciolaris Paralichthys dentatus Amia calva Etheostoma histrio Lythrurus lirus Paralichthys lethostigma Ammocrypta beanii Etheostoma hopkinsi Lythrurus matutinus Paralichthys sp. Ammocrypta bifascia Etheostoma inscriptum Lythrurus roseipinnis Perca flavescens Ammocrypta bifasciata Etheostoma jordani Macrhybopsis n. sp. cf aestivalis Percina austroperca Ammocrypta meridiana Etheostoma lachneri Macrhybopsis storeriana Percina caprodes Anchoa hepsetus Etheostoma longimanum Margariscus margarita Percina crassa Anchoa mitchilli Etheostoma mariae Membras martinica Percina kathae Anchoa sp. Etheostoma nigripinne Menidia beryllina Percina kusha

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Anguilla rostrata Etheostoma nigrum Menidia peninsulae Percina maculata Aphredoderus sayanus Etheostoma olmstedi Menidia sp. Percina nevisense Aplodinotus grunniens Etheostoma olmstedi maculaticeps Menticirrhus americanus Percina nigrofasciata Archosargus probatocephalus Etheostoma parvipinne Microgobius gulosus Percina notogramma Ariopsis felis Etheostoma podostemone Micropogonias undulatus Percina palmaris Astronotus ocellatus Etheostoma proeliare Micropterus cataractae Percina peltata Bagre marinus Etheostoma proliare Micropterus coosae Percina rex Bairdiella chrysoura Etheostoma ramseyi Micropterus dolomieu Percina roanoka Bathygobius soporator Etheostoma rupestre Micropterus notius Percina sciera Brevoortia patronus Etheostoma saludae Micropterus punctulatus Percina shumardi Brevoortia smithi Etheostoma serrifer Micropterus salmoides Percina smithvanizi Brevoortia sp. Etheostoma serriferum Minytrema melanops Percina sp. muscadine darter Brevoortia tyrannus Etheostoma sp. Misgurnus anguillicaudatus Percina vigil Campostoma anomalum Etheostoma stigmaeum Morone americana Petromyzon marinus Campostoma oligolepis Etheostoma swaini Morone chrysops Phenacobius catostomus Campostoma pauciradii Etheostoma tallapoosae Morone chrysops x M. saxatilis Phoxinus oreas Caranx hippos Etheostoma thalassinum Morone hybrid Pimephales notatus Caranx sp. Etheostoma trisella Morone mississippiensis Pimephales promelas Carassius auratus Etheostoma vitreum Morone saxatilis Pimephales vigilax Carpiodes cyprinus Etheostoma zonifer Morone saxatilis x Morone chrysop Poecilia latipinna Carpiodes velifer Eucinostomus argenteus Morone spp. Pogonias cromis Catostomus commersoni Eucinostomus gula Moxostoma anisurum Pomoxis annularis Catostomus commersonii Eucinostomus harengulus Moxostoma ariommum Pomoxis nigromaculatus Centrarchus macropterus Eucinostomus sp. Moxostoma carinatum Pteronotropis euryzonus Centropomus undecimalis Exoglossum maxillingua Moxostoma cervinum Pteronotropis grandipinnis Chaenobryttus gulosus Floridichthys carpio Moxostoma collapsum Pteronotropis hypselopterus Chologaster cornuta Fundulus bifax Moxostoma collapsum ** (1/27/06) Pteronotropis merlini Cichla ocellaris Fundulus chrysotus Moxostoma duquesnei Pteronotropis signipinnis Cichlasoma salvini Fundulus confluentus Moxostoma erythrurum Pteronotropis stonei Cichlasoma urophthalmus Fundulus diaphanus Moxostoma lachneri Pteronotropis welaka Citharichthys spilopterus Fundulus dispar blairae Moxostoma macrolepidotum Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus Clarias batrachus Fundulus escambiae Moxostoma n. sp. cf poecilurum Pylodictis olivaris 23

Clinostomus funduloides Fundulus grandis Moxostoma pappillosum Rhinichthys atratulus Cottus bairdi Fundulus lineolatus Moxostoma poecilurum Rhinichthys cataractae Cottus bairdii Fundulus notatus Moxostoma rhothoeca Rhinichthys obtusus Cottus caeruleomentum Fundulus notti Moxostoma robustum Salmo trutta Cottus carolinae Fundulus olivaceous Moxostoma rupiscartes Salvelinus fontinalis Cottus cognatus Fundulus olivaceus Moxostoma sp. Sander canadensis Cottus girardi Fundulus rathbuni Moxostoma sp. apalachicola redhor Sander vitreus Cottus tallapoosae Fundulus seminolis Moxostoma sp. cf. erythrurum Scartomyzon ariommus Ctenogobius bolesoma Fundulus similis Moxoxtoma carinatum Scartomyzon cervinus Ctenogobius shufeldti Fundulus sp. Moxoxtoma duquesnei Scartomyzon lachneri Ctenopharyngodon idella Fundulus stellifer Moxoxtoma erythrurum Scartomyzon rupiscartes Cynoscion arenarius Gambusia affinis Moxoxtoma poecilurum Scartomyzon sp. Cynoscion nebulosus Gambusia holbrooki Mugil cephalus Scartomyzon sp. cf. lachneri Cynoscion nothus Gerres cinereus Mugil curema Sciaenops ocellatus Cyprinella Sp. x Cyprinella Sp. Gobionellus hastatus Mugil sp. Semotilus atromaculatus Cyprinella analostana Gobionellus sp. Myrophis punctatus Semotilus corporalis Cyprinella callisema Gobiosoma bosci No Fish Semotilus lumbee Cyprinella callistia Gobiosoma robustum Nocomis leptocephalus Semotilus thoreauianus Cyprinella callitaenia Hemicaranx amblyrhynchus Nocomis leptocephalus bellicus Strongylura marina Cyprinella chloristia Heterandria formosa Nocomis micropogon Strongylura sp. Cyprinella chloristius Hiodon tergisus Nocomis raneyi Symphurus plagiusa Cyprinella galactura Hybognathus hayi Notemigonus crysoleucas Syngnathus scovelli Cyprinella gibbsi Hybognathus nuchalis Notomigonus crysoleucas Syngnathus sp. Cyprinella labrosa Hybognathus regius Notropis alborus Tilapia hybrid Cyprinella leedsi Hybopsis hypsinotus Notropis altipinnis Tilapia mariae Cyprinella lutrensis Hybopsis labrosa Notropis ammophilis Tilapia sp. Cyprinella nivea Hybopsis lineapunctata Notropis amoenus Trachinotus falcatus Cyprinella pyrrhomelas Hybopsis rubrifrons Notropis amplamala Trinectes maculatus Cyprinella spiloptera Hybopsis sp cf winchelli Notropis asperifrons Umbra pygmaea Cyprinella trichroistia Hybopsis winchelli Notropis atherinoides Unidentified species Cyprinella venusta Hybopsis zanema** Notropis baileyi Unknown Cyprinella whipplei Hypentelium etowanum Notropis buccatus minnow hybrid 24

Cyprinella xaenura Hypentelium nigricans Notropis candidus sunfish hybrid Cyprinella zanema Hypentelium roanokense Notropis chalybaeus Cyprinodon variegatus Hypostomus plecostomus Notropis chiliticus Cyprinus carpio Ichthyomyzon castaneus Notropis chlorocephalus Dasyatis sabina Ichthyomyzon gagei Notropis chrosomus Dasyatis sp. Ictalurus furcatus Notropis cummingsae Diapterus auratus Ictalurus punctatus Notropis harperi Diapterus plumieri Ictiobus bubalus Notropis hudsonius Dormitator maculatus Jordanella floridae Notropis hypsilepis Dorosoma cepedianum Labidesthes sicculus Notropis leuciodus Dorosoma petenense Lagodon rhomboides Notropis longirostris Dorosoma sp. Lampetra aepyptera Notropis lutipinnis Elassoma evergladei Lampetra appendix Notropis maculatus Elassoma okefenokee Leiostomus xanthurus Notropis petersoni Elassoma sp. Lepisosteus oculatus Notropis procne Elassoma zonatum Lepisosteus osseus Notropis rubellus Eleotris pisonis Lepisosteus platyrhincus Notropis scepticus Elops saurus Lepisosteus sp. Notropis semperasper Enneacanthus chaetodon Lepomis auritus Notropis sp. Enneacanthus gloriosus Lepomis cyanellus Notropis sp. cf. chlorocephalus Enneacanthus obesus Lepomis gibbosus Notropis spectrunculus Ericymba buccata Lepomis gulosus Notropis stilbius Erimyzon oblongus Lepomis humilis Notropis telescopus Erimyzon sucetta Lepomis macrochirus Notropis texanus Erimyzon tenuis Lepomis marginatus Notropis volucellus Erymyzon sucetta Lepomis megalotis Notropis xaenocephalus

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Figure 1. States in the Southeast Aquatic Resource Partnership. 26

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