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Fish
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Park Service’s Shenandoah National Park and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, assisted by RappFLOW volunteers.
RappFLOW received a $5,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to test, analyze, and restore the water quality of the Thornton River. The group also has applied for a $50,000 grant from the National Wildlife Foundation to continue their research of the streams and watershed of our county.
Initial survey
findings
In initial findings, Jim Atkinson, chief biologist for the Shenandoah .National Park, reported that the survey found 24 different species of fish in the several sections of the Thornton River surveyed. This number of species is well within the range of expectation for a stream of this size within the upper Rappahannock watershed, according to Atkinson.
Atkinson explained. "The fish captured represent between 75 and 85 percent of fish species potentially present with this section of the Thornton River. A different time of year (such as late summer) or a different year, may produce slightly different results in species composition due to the mobility of some fish and their seasonal water temperature and habitat prefer
93.9%