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Fish aid: The Lake Mead fertilization project
Digital Scholarship@UNLV
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Fish aid: The Lake Mead fertilization project
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Axler, Richard
Paulson, Larry Vaux, Peter Sollberger, Patrick Baepler, Donald H. |
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| Description |
Sport fishing at Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona is a resource valued at nearly $100 million per year to southern Nevada. During the past two decades, salmonids, mostly trout, have disappeared entirely, the largemouth bass catch has drastically declined despite greater fishing pressure, and the condition factors for striped bass have steadily deteriorated. It appears that a major reduction in phosphorus loading caused by the upstream impoundment of the Colorado River to form Lake Powell in...
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1988-01-01
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text
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application/pdf
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| Identifier |
http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/water_pubs/89
http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1094&context=water_pubs |
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Publications (WR)
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Digital Scholarship@UNLV
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Ammonium polyphosphate
Effluent quality Environmental monitoring Fisheries Lake Mead (Ariz. and Nev.) Water quality Aquaculture and Fisheries Biology, general Fresh Water Studies Natural Resources and Conservation Natural Resources Management and Policy Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Water Resource Management |
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