Happles Lake Baseline Study

Instructor: Dr. Derek H. Ogle

Students: Fall07 NRS349 Class, Josh Smith Spr08, and Others

Collaborators: Sue Reinecke (U.S. Forest Service)
Skip Sommerfeldt (WiDNR)
Teresa Maday (U.S. Forest Service)

Purpose: Develop baseline information about the fish community of Happles Lake.

Objectives: The specific objectives of this initial field study were

Develop a list of fish species present.
Compute catch-per-effort (CPE) for all major fish species.
Construct a population estimate for all major fish species.
Construct length frequencies for all major fish species.
Compute PSD values for all major fish species.
Compute relative weight (Wr) for all major fish species.
Construct age frequencies for all major fish species.
Compute parameters for the Von Bertalanffy growth model for all major fish species.