What fish were identified in the USGS survey?
A combination of backpack electro-fishing and seining was used to capture fish in sections of each stream at least 482 feet long (Meador and others, 1993a). Electrofishing is a technique which uses electricity to mildly stun fish that are then captured by net or seine. Standard survey methods were used in each stream section so that results among stream sections could be compared. Stream sections were chosen to represent typical conditions in each tributary. The number of individual fish and species captured in the 9 streams are shown in table 3 (html) (gif). The streams are presented, from left to right, in descending order of the number of native species captured. The largest number of native species and individuals (with the exception of Peachtree Creek) was found in Snake Creek, the basin mostly covered by forest. One of the 3 endemic species, the grayfin redhorse, was found in Snake Creek. Although the 8 urban streams vary from 2 to 15 in the number of native species found, they s
