I am looking for information on fish and freshwater mussels in Maine. On PEARL’s home page, should I go to DATA or to FOCUS TOPICS > Freshwater Biodiversity?
It depends on how much background and other information you are looking for. Both avenues will lead to PEARL’s fish and mussel core data tables – for example IF&W’s mussel and lake fish surveys. However, the Freshwater Biodiversity pages provide supporting information and topic overviews that are not found in the DATA pages. Here are 4 examples of the options available to you: 1. You want to find out what fish and mussel data sets are available in PEARL. Do this: PEARL Home > Data > Browse Data Sets > Fauna under either Lakes & Streams or Wetlands etc. This displays all of the relevant data set titles in the PEARL Data Bank. Opening any table will display the full data set. 2. You are only looking for summary species lists for a lake or a watershed. Take this route: PEARL Home > Data > Search by Lake or Search by Watershed. Once the lake or watershed overview page displays, simply click on the Fish or Mussel button to generate a species list. Note that this list is generated dynamicall
