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Anglers will be interested in the species caught and identified. These include such fish as the “American brook lamprey, American eel, blacknose and longnose dace, common and rosyface shiner, fallfish, river and bluehead chub, cutlip minnow, creek and northern chubsucker, torrent and white sucker, margined mad tom (catfish family), rainbow trout, bluegill, redbreast and green sunfish, large and smallmouth bass, rock bass, mottled sculpin, and tessellated darter.
How survey was
conducted
Beginning at Cliff Miller’s Mount Vernon Farm near Sperryville, some nine people, including the professional biologists and the RappFLOW volunteers, gathered in the early morning of May 31 to begin the survey. Their mission was to capture and identify as many fish species as possible to understand the diversity and habitat of Rappahannock streams. The group’s first stop was a nearby farm further downstream off Fletcher Mills Road. A group of RappFLOW volunteers worked with the nets and toted the buckets of fish captured for identification.
Loaded down with electrostunning equipment that puts an electric charge into the water to temporarily stun the fish and many buckets for the fish caught, the group took samples in the river for an hour and a half to two hours at each of several sampling sites.
The complicated effort required considerable dexterity and quick reflexes. Wading in
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