Status of robust redhorse (Moxostoma robustum): reintroduction efforts and preliminary results of sonic-tracking in the Ocmulgee River
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Straight, Carrie A.
Freeman, Byron J.
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Hatcher, Kathryn J.
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Abstract
With the “rediscovery” of the robust
redhorse (Moxostoma robustum) in 1993 and the
recognition that Georgia harbored the only significant
known remaining population of this species, a Robust
Redhorse Conservation Committee (RRCC) was
created. Reintroduction of robust redhorse in the
Ocmulgee River was one conservation goal of this
committee. Robust redhorse were released into the
Ocmulgee River in 2002. To monitor the success of this
reintroduction effort, we are tracking their movements
using surgically implanted sonic transmitters.
Telemetered robust redhorse moved between 21 and 187
river kilometers downstream of from the release site.
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2003-04
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