Fisheries Section annual report, fiscal year 1988

FISHERIES SECTION ANNUAL REPORT Fiscal Year 1988
July 1, 1987 - June 30, 1988
Game and Fish Division Department of Natural Resources
Atlanta, Georgia

The Department of Natural Resources receives Federal Aid in fiRh and wildlife restoration. Under Title VI of 1964 Civil Rights Act and Section 501_. of the Rehabilitation Act 1973, the U. S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national or1g1.n or handicap. If you believe that you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility as described above, or if you desire further information please write to:
The Official of Equal Opportunity U. S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C 20240

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Table of Contents

SUBJECT

PAGE

Overview of Fisheries Section Activities

1

Map of Fisheries Section region and district boundaries

2

A. Facts about fishing in Georgia, fisheries related revenues

4

earned and Fisheries Section expenditures

B. Private waters management

8

c. Public waters management

12

D. Trout production

20

E. Warmwater hatchery production

24

F. Public fishing area operation

29

G. Research and survey

32

H. Maintenance and construction

35

Fisheries Section Activities

The Fisheries Section manages Georgia's fish populations in

more than 4,000 miles of trout streams, 12,000 miles of warmwater

streams and one-half mill ion acres of impoundments. over 1. 2

million people participate in freshwater sport fishing yearly in

Georgia making it the most popular wildlife activity in the State.

Freshwater fisheries are managed and protected by the Department of

Natural Resources (DNR) through private and public water

management; public fishing areas; trout production and stocking;

warmwater hatchery production; research and surveys; and boat ramp

construction and maintenance.

Detailed information on the

Section's activities and program costs is listed in the tables in

Appendices A-H. The statewide fisheries program is administered

from a central office in Atlanta, seven regional offices and eleven

district offices (Figure 1).

Under private waters management the Fisheries Section provided assistance to pond owners by conducting over 2,000 field investigations in Fiscal Year 1988 (FY1988). The DNR is the only government agency providing fish to Georgia pond owners and in FY1988 provided about 6. 7 million fish for over 2, 900 ponds. Under public waters management, routine standardized sampling has been used to identify problems and research needs in water bodies without the expense and manpower requirement of intensive research studies. The Section continued to sample all major state reservoirs in FY1988 and to develop a similar program for sampling streams and rivers.

To offset the projected shortage of 4.3 million trips on small lakes in Georgia, expected to occur by 1990, the Section continued efforts to meet the Department goal of acquiring more land for constructing new public fishing lakes. The section completed the identification of potential fishing lake sites in the State in 1988. Emphasis is now being placed on acquiring the land where the best of these sites are located using the funds provided through
the recent increases in fishing licenses. In addition, the new lake located on the Big Lazer Creek Wildlife Management Area in Talbot County was completed in FY1988 and the lake should be open to fishermen in the summer of FY1989.

Presently over 200, ooo trout fishermen fish each year in
Georgia. Trout stream habitat is limited to about 4,000 miles of stream, and the native trout populations cannot support this heavy use. To help meet the demand for trout fishing opportunities, the state hatcheries grow to catchable size and stock over 650,00 trout
annually.

Seven warmwater hatcheries produce fish to meet public waters stocking needs in Georgia. Major species are striped bass and striped bass x white bass hybrids. Over 400 thousand striped bass and over 3.3 million hybrids were produced and stocked by State hatcheries in FY1988.

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- Gainesville Region Ill - Walton

Region V - Albany

Region VII Richmond Hill

Figure 1. Fisheries regions and districts in Georgia and location of regional offices. Broken lines mark district boundaries within regions.
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The Fisheries Section research and survey program continued in FY19BB. Projects included surveys of fish populations in fourteen reservoirs and five streams, studies related to trout stocking and hatchery production, and analyses of creel data and fishing pressure. To improve access to fishing habitat the State continued to construct and maintain boat ramps for public use.
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Appendix A:

Tables showing important facts about fishing in Georgia, information on revenue earned, and expenditures for FY1988

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Table A-1. Important facts about freshwater fishing and fishermen in Georgia.

Item

Number

Total resident Georgia anglers over 16 years old.
Total annual fishing trips by Georgia fishermen.
Total days spent fishing each year.
Average days spent fishing each year.
Average one-way distance traveled on each fishing trip. Total annual expenditure by all resident and non-resident fishermen in Georgia (16 years old and older).
Economic impact of sport fishing on Georgia's economy Estimated number of jobs generated.
Estimated sales tax generated from sale of sport fishing related items.

1,205,000
19,895,700
26,824,100 22.3 days 22.6 miles
$948.6 million
$1.4 billion
27.7 thousand
$35.7 million

source a a a
a a
b
b b b

a

1985 National Survev of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-

Associated Recreation published by the U.S. Department of the
Interior, u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service in March 1989. This

is the most accurate data currently available.

b

The Economic Impact of Sport Fishing in the State of Georgia

published by the Sport Fishing Institute in 1989. The

calculations are based on data from the 11 1985 National Survey

of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation."

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Table A-2.

Revenue (to the nearest dollar) generated by the Fisheries Section from license sales in license year 1987-88 (April 1,1987 to March 31, 1988) and revenue generated from the sale of permits to use Public Fishing Areas.

License Sales License Year 1987-1988 (April 1, 1987 to March 31, 1988)

Type of License

No. Sold

Combination Hunting-Fishing

72,137

Resident Fishing

610,805

Resident Trout

107,978

Non-resident Season Fishing

10,504

Non-resident 5-day Fishing

40,890

Non-resident season Trout

4,053

Total

846,367

Revenue 537,7508
4,216,268 313,617 203,830 200,636 40,167
5,512,268

Arrowhead McDuffie Baldwin Forest Evans County waters Creek
Total

Public Fishing Areas No Permits Sold 9,551 12,468 4,763 4,674 2.336 33,792

Revenue 9,551
12,468 4,763 4,678 2.336
33,796

a

This is only one half the revenue generated. The remaining

funds are considered as being generated by hunters.

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a Table A-3. Fisheries Section expenditures (thousands of dollars) and mandays by region and program in FY1988.

Program

b

Atlanta

I

Total

Total

II

Ill

IV

v

VI

VII

Cost Mandays

Private Waters Management

37.2 40.7

11.1

56.4

30.4 26.3

80.6 25.4

308.1

Public Waters Management

219.7 184.5

266.9 351.5

227.1 186.7

221.3 162.8 1,820.5

Aquatic Plant Control

12.4

90.1

102.5

Trout Production/Stocking

92.3 88.1

584.1

764.5

Warmwater Hatcheries

123.2 28.2

10.7 203.7

5.4 244.8

120.0 284.3 1,020.3

Public Fishing Areas
-...J
Research/Surveys

43.8 76.1 110.8 114.8

134.7

63.3 84.7

67.9 71.3 84.7 164.4

40.8 161.2

63.7

363.2 919.0

Facility Maintenance and New Construction

187.8

154.8

641.9

22.5 63.2 1,070.2

Total

827.2 532.4 1,162.3 759.6 1,147.5 693.5

646.4 599.4 6,368.3

a These figures may differ somewhat from the final6/88 Fiscal Accounting and Control System (FACS) printout since errors in the FACS printout were corrected in this table.
b Expenses of Atlanta Office, with the exception of capital outlay expenses, were prorated as administrative costs to all programs.

1,996 10,644
467 3,805 5,632 2,580 6,295 1,312
32,731

Appendix B:

Tables showing information on the Fisheries Section Private Waters Management Program in FY1988.

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Table B-1. Field investigations on private waters in FY1988.

Region

District

Aquatic Grass Carp Fish Pre-stocking General

Balance Vegetation Evaluations Kills

Checks Management

Total

o/o of Total

Calhoun

40

1

132

9

163

345

17

II

Gainesville

16

5

10

3

25

10

69

3

Ill Walton

153

98

4

46

Thomson

64

96

156

49

1

4

305

15

33

399

19

IV Macon

42

11

17

6

48

Manchester

46

21

43

3

8

5

129

7

6

127

6

\0

v Albany

55

26

6

Cordele

83

13

9

1

88

4

8

113

6

VI Waycross

31

29

16

37

4

10

127

6

Metter

12

13

130

32

2

44

233

11

VII Richmond Hill

32

11

56

14

9

25

147

7

Total

574

226

673 157

306

%of Total

28

11

32

8

15

146

2,082 100

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Table B-2. Office technical services for private water management in each district in FY1988.
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Region

District

Aquatic Balance Vegetation

Rsh Fish Applications General Kills Reviewed Management

Total

%of Total

Calhoun

196

481

45

227

111

1,060

10

II Gainesville

22

32

5

106

149

314

3

Ill Walton

275

431

38

553

Thomson

60

224

63

617

876

2,173

20

560

1,524

14

IV Macon

90

104

40

216

105

555

5

Manchester

34

174

23

122

212

565

5

1-'

0

v Albany

8

193

48

308

139

696

7

Cordele

51

56

36

200

108

451

4

VI Waycross Metter

57

461

176

702

35

374

85

403

368

1,764

17

172

1,069

10

VII Richmond Hill

14

116

24

128

293

575

5

Total %of Total

842

2,646 583

3,582

8

25

5

33

3,093 10,746 100 29

Table B-3. Total number and acres of private ponds stocked with largemouth bass, bream and channel catfish In F1988.

Region District

Bass-Bream Ponds Stocked
Number Acres

Calhoun

108 355

II Gainesville

90 229

Ill Walton Thomson

............

IV Macon

Manchester

v Albany
Cordele

125 568 252 1,006

156 1,029

131

929

210 1,326 95 528

VI Waycross Metter

338 3,470 328 2,127

VII Richmond Hill

54 109

Total

1,887 11,676

Percent Stocked at Fertilized Rate

Number

Acres

Number and Species Stocked

Bluegill

Redear Largemouth Channel

Sunfish

Bass

Catfish

11

17 158,280 33,195

16,259 33,304

0

0 92,764 23,191

11,635 28,173

5

4 236,640 57,160

21,374 44,957

22

16 433,370 99,280

54,797 122,601

13

7 292,710 85,490

48,651 48,967

24

15 401,600 98,150

53,499 53,098

8

4 534,532 126,523

67,789 116,033

19

11 223,266 54,254

27,481 59,656

2

1 1,077,536 253,884

151,974 191,794

5

4 803,968 182,917

111,330 137,773

2

7 46,990 11,750

10,985 25,305

10

6 4,301,656 1,025,794

575,774 861,661

Catfish Only Ponds Stocked
Number Acres

39

67

44

50

59

91

184

287

57

174

53

467

162

527

102

567

171

553

139

410

63

140

1,073 3,333

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Appendix C:

Tables showing information on the Fisheries Section Public Waters Management Program in FY1988.

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Table C-1. Management and development activities of the Fisheries Section in FY1988.

Type of Activity Fish attractor construction and maintenance
Assistance to DNR Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division Assistance to city of Tallapoosa; Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base; and Georgia Southern College Assistance to the DNR Game Management Section
Improvement of forage fish population in Lake Burton Repair of trout stream improvement structures

Description Fish attractors were inspected, constructed andjor refurbished at the following reservoirs; Bartletts Ferry, Burton, Chatuge, Walter F. George, Goat Rock, Lanier, Nottely, Oliver and Sinclair. Management recommendations and assistance were provided for the lakes at James H. "Sloppy" Floyd, Fort Mountain State and Reed Bingham parks. Assistance was provided in managing lakes and ponds controlled by these agencies. Assistance was provided in managing Goldmine Lake on the Paulding County Wildlife Management Area and Stamp Creek on the Pine Log Wildlife Management Area. Assistance was provided in collecting live fish to feed bald eagles reared by the coastal hacking program on the Altamaha Waterfowl Refuge. Assistance was also provided in the construction of a timber loading ramp at Sapelo Island and a waterfowl impoundment on the Rum Creek Wildlife Management Area. Threadfin shad were collected from Lake Lanier by electrofishing and transported to Lake Burton to provide additional forage. Approximately 66 trout stream improvement structures were repaired in several Northeast Georgia streams. This work was done in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service and Trout Unlimited volunteers.

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Table c-2.

Fish Kills Investigated by the Fisheries Section in FY1988.

Type of Fish Kill
Municipal Pollution Industrial Pollution Agricultural Pollution Disease .....
+="'
Undetermined Total

Number of Incidents
1 9 3 9 15 37

Fish Killed

No.

Value

Fines Collected by DNRc

1,160

711.50

11,000.00

39,780

13,113.34

11,840.00

1,234 5208

929.45
b

6,000.00

57,371

55,041.85

100,065

69,796.14

28,840.00

a Estimates of the number of fish killed by disease are not normally calculated using accepted fish kill counting guidelines, so these values are less accurate than those obtained during more exhaustive investigations.

b Values for fish killed by disease are normally not calculated, so no values are included here.

c

Fines collected as of June 30, 1988 by the Environmental Protection Division for the

FY1988 fish kills.

Table C-3. Fish surveys conducted by the Fisheries Section in FY1988.

Type of Survey Standardized sampling of reservoirs

Sampling Method Seining, gill netting, electrofishing and a general reconnaissance survey

Stream sport fish monitoring

Electrofishing and a general reconnaissance survey

Collection of baseline fish

Electrofishing

population data to evaluate

possible impacts of scheduled

...... highway construction

U'1

Survey of reservoir fish

El ectrofi shi ng

population

Inventory striped bass use of SCUBA and a general

springs as summer refuges

reconnaissance

Body of Water



Allatoona, Bartletts Ferry, Blue Ridge, Blackshear, Burton, Carters, Chatuge, Clarks Hill, Hartwell, High Falls, Jackson, Juliette, Lanier, Nottely, Oconee, Rabun, Seminole, Sinclair, Tobesofkee, Tugaloo, Walter F. George and West Point reservoirs

Altamaha, Ocmulgee, Ohoopee, Satilla and St. Marys rivers

Panther Creek and North Fork Broad River

George W. Andrews, Goat Rock, Oliver and Worth reservoirs Flint, Ogeechee and Savannah rivers

Table C-4. Herbicide treatments applied in controling aquatic weeds statewide in FY1988.

Body of Watsr Streams Ebenezer Creek Ebenezer Creek
Slream Total
Reservoirs Blackshear Blackshear

County
Effingham Effingham
Crisp/Sumter Dooly

Blackshear

Crisp/Worth

Blackshear

Crisp

Blackshear Blackshear

CrispjWorth Crisp

Jackson
Worth
Worth Reservoir Tota1 Publicly-Owned Small Lakes Uttle Ocmulgee State Park

Butts/Newton Dougherty Dougherty
Wheeler

Sloppy Aoyd SP Upper lake
Sloppy Aoyd SP Lower lake
Small Lake Total
Grand Totals

Chattooga Chattooga

Target
Pest
Alligatorweed Duckweed
Lyngbya Parrotfeather, Bacopa, Spatterdock Najas
Alligatorweed, Giant cutgrass Char a Giant cutgrass, Cattails, Najas, Milfoil, Lotus Alligatorweed, Giant cutgrass, Hyacinth Giant cutgrass, Cattails, Hyacinth Lyngbya
Egaria, Milfoll, Najas, Bladderwort, Ulies Potamogeton, S. watergrass Pithophora, Najas
Pithophora, Najas

Paes Affected
10 24
34
300 10 500 4 35 5
50
Not Estimated
60 964
220
5 2 227 1,225

Acres Treated
9.3 24.0 33.3
62.0 5.0
285.0 3.3 2.9 4.7
22.6 30.0 10.0 425.5
100.0
5.1 2.0 107.1 565.9

Number of Treatments

.... Success
of Treatments

95
75 2

12

85

50

2

100

80

90 80

8

95

7

90

50
34

95

3

95

95

5 41

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Table c-5. Environmental reviews and assessments commented on by the Fisheries Section in FY1988.
Aqency

Georqia Department of Natural Resources Plans and Permits

Environmental Protection Division Permits

4

u.s. Government Aqency Permits, Projects and Plans

Army Corps of Engineers Permits

30

Water supply lakes, recreational lakes,
dredge and fill projects, stream channelization, wetlands, discharge and pre-discharge notification, flood control projects, dikes, road and bridge construction permits, and raw water intakes.

Army Corps Projects and Plans

6

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Licenses

13

Fish and Wildlife Service Plans

1

Forest Service Plans

1

Total

55

a Each project, plan or permit is counted only once, even though the Section may have provided comments on more than one occasion. Only those projects that the Section prepared comments on are included in these numbers. Numerous other documents were reviewed but not
commented on.

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Table C-6. Technical assistance provided to other government agencies by the Fisheries Section in FY1988.

Agency Assisted

Description of Assistance

u.s. Forest Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and DNR Environmental Protection Division (EPD) Floyd County, Georgia

Conducted balance checks and population surveys on Murray, Peeples and Conasauga lakes located in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Reviewed timber sale prescriptions and provided trout distribution, density and standing crop data for watersheds in three ranger districts. Collected Gulf Coast striped bass brood stock to be spawned by the USFWS to produce fingerlings for stocking public waters. Assisted USFWS staff in teaching a coldwater culture course. Operated acid rain monitoring units in cooperation with these agencies, and collected fish samples from several bodies of water statewide for analysis under the radiological, trend and toxic substances monitoring proqrams of both agencies. Provided guidance in the renovation and reactivation of Mayo's lock and Dam on the Coosa River.

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Table C-7. Other activities of the Fisheries Section in FY1988.

Type of Activity Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Hosted visitor from Union of Soviet Socialist Republic

Oeser i p_t ion Fisheries Section biologists served on the Division's Pollution, Trout, Warmwater Streams, Striped Bass, Small Impoundment, and Reservoir committees. One biologist served as a technical member of the Commission's Scientific and Statistical Committee. Fisheries personnel in Region III briefed Mr. Viatcheslar L. Melnik, Director of Soviet Traveling Exhibition and Mr. William B. Davis, Exchange Coordinator of U.S. Information Agency on Georgia's fishery resources.

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Appendix D:

Tables showing information on the Fisheries Section Trout Production Program in FY19BB.

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Table D-1. Trout production (lbs.) conversion ratios and costs at state hatcheries in FY1988. Species

a
Cost

Hatchery

Brook Rainbow Brown

Total

Total

Per lb.

Buford

Net weight gain Conversion ratio

4,227 135,951

1.71

1.54

12,530 1.44

152,708 1.54

$267,258

$1.75

Burton

Net weight gain Conversion ratio

122,275 1.40

1,018 123,293

1.70

1.41

$193,740

$1.57

Summerville

Net weight gain

36,915

36,915

$57,248

$1.55

.N....

Conversion ratio

1.51

1.51

Total

Net weight gain
b
Conversion ratio

4,227 295,141

1.71

1.48

13,548 1.46

312,916 1.48

$518,246

$1.66

State's cost per pound to stock trout:

$0.38

Total production and distribution costs per pound:

$2.04

a Does not include administrative cost of Atlanta office.
b
Weighted means.

Table D-2. Number and weight (lbs.) of each species of trout stocked into Georgia's public waters from state and federal hatcheries during FY1988.

Brook

Rainbow

Brown

Total

Facility

Number Weight

Number Weight

Number Weight

Number Weight

State hatcheries Buford catchables fingerlings

Burton

catchables

N N

fingerlings

Summerville catchables

Federal hatcheries Chattahoochee catchables

Walhalla fingerlings

Total catchables fingerlings

5,559

3,4n

290,029 123,517

18,566 12,578

1,300

77

469,638 165,192

19,297

468

15,733 4,249

118,330 40,470

314,154 139,572

1,300

77

485,371 169,441

19,297

468

118,330 40,470

312,402 88,202

5,559 0

3,477 0

1,190,399 417,381

19,297

468

312,402 88,202

72,295

567

72,295

567

34,299 16,827

73,595

644

1,230,257 437,685

92,892

1'112

Table D-S. Number and weight (lbs.) of catchable trout by species and habitat type stocked from all hatcheries in FY1988.

Brook Number Weight

Streams by County

Bartow

Catoosa

Chattooga

Cherokee

Dade

Dawson

Fannin

Floyd

Gilmer

Gordon

Habersham

20

62

Haralson

Lumpkin

725 353

Murray

Paulding

Pickens

Polk

Rabun

1,182 581

Stephens

19

61

Towns

1,220 598

Union

Walker

White

2,100 938

Whitfield

Rainbow

Brown

Total

Number Weight Number Weight Number Weight

9,495 5,490 4,975
730 890 19,900 73,525 18,700 47,800 1,975 33,767 18,450 121,033 20,500 13,630 9,500 4,900 141,538 36,400 77,596 101,146 11,210 108,125 685

3,240 1,967 1,712
260 351 7,709 21,026 6,399 15,302 660 11,871 6,094 37,827 7,067 4,644 3,444 1,610 50,802 13,155 28,037 30,793 4,021 37,459 226

3,200 864 2,933 1,178 1,100 297
700 189 1,200 324 4,600 1,406
3,100 837

9,495 5,490 4,975
730 890 19,900 73,525 18,700 51,000 1,975 36,720 18,450 122,858 20,500 13,630 9,500 4,900 143,420 37,619 83,416 101,146 11,210 113,325 685

3,240 1,967 1,712
260 351 7,709 21,026 6,399 16,166 660 13,111 6,094 38,4n 7,067 4,644 3,444 1,610 51,572 13,540 30,041 30,793 4,021 39,234 226

Total

5,266 2,593

881,960 295,676 16,833 5,095 904,059 303,364

Tailwaters Blue Ridge Hartwell Lanier

273 822

19,600 16,700 155,166

6,251 7,197 68,910

17,466 11,732

19,600 16,700 172,905

6,251 7,197 81,464

Total

273 822 191,466 82,358 17,466 11,732 209,205 94,912

Reservoirs Russell

70,284 25,874

70,284 25,874

Total

70,284 25,874

70,284 25,874

Small Lakes Black Rock Conasauga Dockery Nancytown Rock Creek Vogel Winfield Scott

20

62

3,300 4,800 10,000 6,000 9,500 6,089 7,000

1,073 1,583 2,654 1,867 2,499 1,711 2,086

3,300 4,800 10,000 6,020 9,500 6,089 7,000

1,073 1,583 2,654 1,929 2,499 1,711
2,086

Total

20

62

46,689 13.473

0

0 46,709 13,535

GRAND TOTAL

5,559 3,477 1,190,399 417,381 34,299 16,827 1,230,257 437,685

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Appendix E:

Tables showing information on the Fisheries Section Warmwater Hatchery Production Program in FY1988.

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Table E-1. Total numbers and cost per fish of warmwater species produced at state hatcheries in FY1988.

Species

Acres

Number

Avg. no. per acre

a
Cost per fish($)

Channel catfish fingerling intermediate harvestable

19.84 3.30 1.00

1,733,255 93,332 1,284

87,362 28,282
1,284

Bluegill fingerling

37.48

8,636,430

230,428

Redear sunfish fingerling

12.19

2,332,945

191,382

Largemouth bass fingerling

18.04

1,162,557

64,443

Shoal bass fingerling

2.80

50,992

18,211

Striped bass fry fingerling

b
5.86

4,704,000 493,548

b
84,223

Striped-white hybrid bass fry fingerling

b
24.60

13,845,000 3,283.222

b
133,464

White-striped hybrid bass fry fingerling

b
0.60

660,000 80,146

b
133,577

Total

125.71

c
37,076,711

d 142,134

a
Cost of each production phase includes cost of previous phase.

b
Not applicable, these fry are hatched in jars and then placed in aquaria.
c
Differences between the production totals in this table and the distribution totals in Table E-4 result from handling, holding, and transporting mortalities. the use of surplus fish as forage to maintain spawning stocks, and the stocking of fish produced on federal hatcheries.

d Weighted means. Striped bass and hybrid fry numbers were not used in calculating these values.

0.095 0.315 4.710
0.027
0.039
0.118
0.587
0.009 0.066
0.009 0.038
0.009 0.034
d 0.048

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Table E-2. Number of each warmwater species produced at state hatcheries in FY1988.

Species

Summerville Walton

McDuffie Cordele

Steve Cocke

Bowens Mill

Richmond Hill

Total

Channel catfish fingerling Intermediate harvestable
Bluegill fingerling
Redear sunfish fingerling

Largemouth bass

N

fingerling

0'\

Shoal bass

fingerling

Striped bass fry fingerling

Striped-white hybrid bass fry fingerling

White-striped hybrid bass fry fingerling

Total

185,143

425,243 1,284

736,200 93,332

256,233

130,436

1,733,255 93,332 1,284

333,709 1,117,709 1,866,033

1,151,458 1,822,500 2,345,021 8,636,430

92,325

166,761 669,600

260,321 736,000

407,938 2,332,945

171,067 341,500

151,440 414,000

84,550 1,162,557

33,273

17,719

50,992

410,084

4,704,000 4,704,000

83,464

493,548

730,177

561,183

13,845,000 13,845,000 776,870 1,214,992 3,283,222

426,034

1,640,680 3,713,744

1,592,982

660,000 80,146

660,000 80,146

2,398,354 3,749,370 23,555,547 37,076,711

Table E-3. Cost per fish (dollars) of warmwater species produced at state hatcheries in FY1988.

Species
--
Channel catfish fingerling . intermediate harvestable

Summerville Walton McDuffie Cordele

0.095

0.042 4.710

0.095 0.315

Steve Cocke

Bowens
Mill

Richmond Hill

0.135

0.191

Bluegill fingerling

0.052

0.020

0.020

0.029

0.025

0.034

Redear sunfish fingerling

0.049

0.065

0.032

0.057

0.028

0.047

N......

Largemouth bass

fingerling

0.119

0.077

0.097

0.110

0.363

Shoal bass fingerling

0.307

1.114

Striped bass fry fingerling

0.046

0.009 0.160

Striped-white hybrid bass fry fingerling

0.050

0.036

0.030

0.009 0.036

White-striped hybrid bass fry fingerling

0.009 0.034



Table E-4. Number of warmwater fish distributed from state hatcheries in FY1988. Totals include fish provided by federal hatcheries, surplus brood stock and fish available as by-products of other programs.

Publicly Owned

Public

Other

..

Private

Rivers &

Small

Fishing

Fisheries

a

Species

Waters

Reservoirs Streams

Lakes

Areas

Agencies

Total

White amur adult

367

367

Channel catfish fingerling intermediate harvestable

853,661 8,000

62,125

349,100 123,390 7,614

109,650 73,332 1,284

1,497,926 88,946 1,284

Bluegill fingerling harvestable

4,301,656

22,845 1,316,581 75,970 231,000

5,948,052

250

250

Redear sunfish fingerling

1,025,794

10,856

380,295 18,810

50,000

1,485,755

Largemouth bass fingerling

575,774

80,200 50,333

27,115

733,422

Shoal bass

fingerling

0~0"

Striped bass

fry

fingerling

383.350

50,992

1,755,000 83,464

50,992
1,755,000 466,814

Striped-white hybrid bass fry fingerling

3,271,319

2,675,000

2,675,000 3,271,319

White-striped hybrid bass fry fingerling

80,146

220,000

220,000 80,146

Walleye fry

7,550,000

Total

6,764,885 11,380,641 2,177,168 276,484 492,381 4,733,714 25,825,273

a Totals do not include fry produced and distributed to other state hatcheries for later production phases.
b Differences between the distribution totals in this table and the production totals in Table E-2 result from handling, holding and transporting mortalities. the use of surplus fish as forage to maitain spawning stocks, and the stocking of fish produced on federal hatcheries.

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Appendix F:

Tables showing information on the Fisheries Section Public Fishing Area Operation Program in FY1988.

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Table F-1. Public Fishing Areas cost and use data for FY1988.

Region

Area

Ownership

Number of lakes

Total
a
Acreage

Total Operating Cost($)

Total Trips

Trips/ Acre

Arrowhead

State

Ill McDuffie

State

IV Baldwin Forest State

IV Rum Creek

v

b Williams

v

b Big Lazer

GA Power State State

2

25.3

12

123.0

5

51.3

1 3,600.0

1

48.0

1

195.0

76,098 63,258 49,339 18,560
6,841 64,475

15,594 15,812
8,505

617.6 128.6 165.8

VI Evans County

State

3

84.0

39,854

6,330

75.4

w

0

VI Treutlen County Private

1

189.0

975

c

c

Total

26

4,315.6

319,400 46,241

163.1

a
Total acreage open to public fishing.

b Williams and Big Lazer were closed to public fishing due to repairs and construction.

c Totals are based on the areas for which this information is available.

Table F-2. Harvest and catch rate of fish caught from two Public Fishing Areas in FY1988 for which information was available.

Arrowhead

Evans County

Species
Channel catfish b
Sunfish

Number

a Avg. Wgt.

22,873 1,362

1.19 0.17

Number
226 9,646

a
Avg. Wgt.
-
3.09
0.31

Largemouth bass

26

1.91

800

1.28

Crappie

1,076

0.47

Other w
1-'
Total

24,261

c 1.13

524 12,272

0.43 c
0.44

Fish caught per trip Number
Weight

1.56 1.77

1.93 0.88

a
Weights in pounds.
b
Primarily bluegill and redear sunfish.
c Weighted means.

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Appendix G:

Tables showing information on the Fisheries Section Research and Survey Program in FY1988.

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Table G-1. Man~ys. cost and funding source for research and survey studies in each region during FY1988.

Region Northwest
Northeast
East Central
West Central South West South Central Coastal
Atlanta Office Total

Study
Evaluation of the fish populations and sport fishing of Blue Ridge Reservoir. A survey of the black crappie population in Allatoona Reservoir. An evaluation of access point and roving non-uniform probability creel surveys in Georgia. Evaluation of fish populations and sport fishing of Allatoona Reservoir.
Evaluation of trout fingerling stocking in small headwater trout streams.
Evaluation of the walleye introductions into Lake Nottely. A fisheries survey of the Upper Chattooga River. Factors influencing year class strength of the walleye population of Lake Burton Hatchery. Black bass exploitation survey on Lake Lanier.
A fishery survey of the Richard Russell Reservoir. The effect of three stocking rates on growth, survival, and angler success and harvest of brown trout in the lower 27 km of the Chattahoochee river. Creel census of the Richard Russell dam tailwaters.
Use of the Lake Rutledge fishery following renovation.
A survey of the black crappie population of Lake Sinclair. A survey of the largemouth bass fishery on Lake Sinclair. A fisheries survey of Jackson Lake.
Dynamics of the largemouth bass fishery in Lake George. Biology of the flathead catfish in the Aint River. Survey of four major reservoirs in Southwest Georgia. Food habits of juvenile largemouth bass in Lake George.
Stream sport fish monitoring program. Population dynamics of American shad in the Altamaha River.
-Umited life history aspects of selected fishes of the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers. A fisheries survey of the Ogeechee River. Evaluation of triploid grass carp to control filamentous algae in fish rearing ponds at Richmond Hill Fish Hatchery. Savannah River creel survey.
Administrative

Cost($) 51,241
43,042
10,248
10,248
25,596
29,504 29,488 38,100
12,000 32,553 18,820
6,963 16,727
9,591 42,308 29,112 13,248 111,000
3,000 25,900 24,500 88.107 73,119
9,100
23,807 6,125
24,700 110,843 918,990

Mandays 270
697
82 97
148
198 200 232
60 232
134

Fund Source
OJ
OJ
OJ
OJ
OJ
OJ OJ OJ
OJ OJ OJ

49 126
68 345 292 60 692
18 161 153 680 414
38
144 45
345 315 6,295

OJ CORPS
OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ STATE
OJ
OJ STATE
OJ

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Table G-2. Final reports and publications completed by the Fisheries Section in FY-1988.

Author FINAL REPORTS Beisser, G.
Durniak, J., et al. Ell is, F. Keefer, L.
Martin, C.
Mauldin A. and J. McCollum Probst, W.

Publication
A survey of the fish populations and sport fishery of Carters Reservoir. Return of stocked trout from Lake Lanier. A fisheries survey of the upper Flint River. Survey of the lchawaynotchaway/Chickasawhatchee Creek fishery. A survey of potential public fishing area lake sites within the East Central Region, Georgia. The Lake Rutledge fishery following renovation. Evaluation of successive year class strength of juvenile American shad in the Ogeechee River.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Quinn, S.
Quinn, S.

Effectiveness of restricted areas in reducing incidental catches of game fish in a gill-net fishery. North American Journal of Fishery Management 8:224-230. Analysis of the stomach contents of flathead catfish in the Flint River, Georgia. Annual Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 41:85-92.

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Appendix H:

Table showing the Fisheries Section maintenance and construction projects in FY1988.

35

Table H-1. Facility maintenance and construction projects in FY1988.

Projed

Projeet Delcripdoa

~.....Outlay Colts

~Dital Outla.t ~,ts f1dleriel CMP

Tetal M.-t.ays

FACILITYMAINTENANCEA.ND REPAIR

Buford Hatcheay

Funds were encumbered to modify two raceways and add additional pumps and pipin1 in order to test the efficiency of usins calcium chloride to protect hatcheay fish from the hip iron and manpnese found in the river -ter durin1 autumn.

90,000

30

McDuffie Hatcheay and Public F11hin1 Area

Ren<Mition - bepn and completed on 11 hatcheay ponds durin1 the year.
Old dikes, drains, and -ter supply lines '~'ere removed and new ones installed. Concrete kettles were also installed.

13,91S

S0,964

610

Boat Ramp Repairs

Repaired 22 ramps statewide.

10,862

11J,71.1

63

Statewide EmeJ:Fncy Repain

Repaired dam at Williams Public Fashin1 Area.

4,430

4,632

34

Sub Total

89,207

90,000

76,323

137

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Boat Ramp Construction

Construction occurred on 4 boat ramp projects and 3 were completed (Odum

22,.543

432,740

27S

Creek Ramp on Lake Andrew, the Idle Hour Ramp on Bsrtletts Feray

l..tJ

Reservoir, and the boat ramp on Bil Laser Public F11hin1 Area).

0\

Expenditures also included the pun:h.ue of critical equipment items

(bulldozer, pade-all, mulcher and ripper) needed for future projects at a COlt

of $335,232.

Bil Lazer Public Fishin1 Area

Construct restrooms and built fence.

44,2S9

Stew Ccc:ke Hatcheay

Funds were oblipted to pun:hase additional land.

14,39:5

Buford Hatcheay

Funds were oblipted to construct a new residence.

64,767

Richmond Hill Hatcheay

Funds were oolipted to construct a new residence.

63,192

Metter District Off~

Funds were oblipted to construct a new storage buildin1.

2.2,S21

Sub-Total

22,.543

641,874

0

27S

Fort Valley Administrative Colits

These are the costs and mandays a.ldated with operation and

97,400

234

administration of the statewide facility maintenance and repair and boat

ramp construction programs that are not directly applicable to a specifiC

project.

Atlanta Administrative Colits

These are the calculated prorated share of non-capital outlay expenses and

129,177

66

mandays applied to management of capital outlay projects by the Atlanta

Office.

Total Expenditures

338,327

131,874

76,323

1,312

a Non-capital outlay expenditures of the F'asheries Section assigned to specifiC projects as '~'ell as the administrative costs of both the Fort Valley and
Atlanta offices.

b The capital outlay fundin1 for these projects - provided through the Consolidated Maintenance Program (CMP) funded through the Game and Fish Division budget. Those funds are not included in the Section expenditures.