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FRESHWATER FISH INVENTORY:
NORTHEAST TEMPERATE NETWORK, 1999-2001
Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR—2005/16
Dr. Martha E.
Mather, Alicia J. Norris, and Michael P. Carey
University of Massachusetts
Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management
Holdsworth Natural Resources Center
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-4220
March 2003
U.S. Department of the Interior
National Park Service
Northeast Region
Inventory & Monitoring Program
Northeast Temperate Network
Woodstock, Vermont
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Introduction
Freshwater fish are an important component of aquatic ecosystems by acting as key predators and enhancing trophic diversity. Freshwater fish also provide important recreational opportunities for anglers and have been a principal funding source for aquatic resource conservation through the sale of fishing licenses.
Phase I of the National Park
Service (NPS) Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) program involves conducting
biological inventories to document occurrence (presence/absence), and
under certain circumstances, abundance for vertebrates and vascular plants.
This project establishes baseline inventories of freshwater fish for seven
National Parks of the Northeast Temperate Network (NETN). Few parks within
the network have had research or inventories conducted on freshwater fish
creating a gap in our understanding of this resource. Freshwater fish
play an important role in aquatic systems of National Parks; knowledge
of the fish fauna within the parks will allow park managers to better
understand and manage park natural resources.
This freshwater fish inventory was conducted between 1999-2001 at seven
NETN parks: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller-National Historical Park, Minute
Man National Historical Park, Morristown National Historical Park, Roosevelt-Vanderbilt
National Historic Site, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Saratoga
National Historical Park, and Weir Farm National Historic Site. (Saugus
Iron Works National Historic Site habitats were very different from those
at other northeastern parks. A tabulated list of possible freshwater species
(12 potential species, 11 native species) from the existing gray literature
was done, but no field sampling was done.) The primary goals of this inventory
were to address the information gaps related to freshwater fish diversity
in these seven parks and document 90% of the fish species present.
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