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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:52:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Konrad Schmidt <flier at usest_net>
To: nfc at actwin_com
Subject: Free Fish Publication

A new publication entitled "Development of Index of Biotic Integrity Expectations for the Lake 
Agassiz Plain Ecoregion" was recently released.  It is the result of fish surveys conducted in the 
Red River of North Basin in Minnesota and North Dakota during the mid-1990s.  The Red flows 
north into Canada's Lake Winnipeg which drains into Hudson's Bay.  The survey results have 
analyzed the data on several faucets of the fish communities present to assess habitat and water 
quality.  The faucets are also called metrics which when summed provide a numerical score of 
how good or bad a stream station is and overall for the entire basin. Examples of metrics which 
can be either negative or positive aspects of a fish community  include: species diversity, intolerant 
species, tolerant species, insectivores, and omnivores.  Additional highlights of the report include 
tables on fish distribution within the basin and the metrics provide easily understandable lessons in 
basic aquatic ecology.  

Copies of the report are free and can be requested from:

Scott Niemela
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
520 Lafayette Rd.
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-296-8878
scott.niemela at pca_state.mn.us