Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Date of this Version
January 1967
Abstract
Physicochemical data from four reservoirs in Nebraska taken within a 30-hour period in August, revealed moderate thermal stratification, closely associated in two reservoirs with the functioning low-level outlet. The reservoirs with thermoclines exhibited greater temperature ranges and contained cooler waters than did reservoirs without thermoclines. The distribution of fish as detected on sonar often revealed the presence and location of a thermocline prior to physical or chemical data verification.
Without exception, the larger the reservoir and the lower the outlet, the better the reservoir fishery. Downstream fisheries ranked the same with one exception.
Comments
Published in Reservoir Fishery Resources Symposium, American Fisheries Society, Washington, 1967, p. 537-540.
Presented by the Reservoir Committee of the Southern Division, American Fisheries Society at the University of Georgia, Center for Continuing Education, Athens.
Copyright © 1967 American Fisheries Society. Used by permission.