Habitat Use and Evaluation
Population Dynamics
Threatened and Endangered Species
Klamath Falls Field Station (KFFS)
The Klamath Falls Field Station (KFFS) conducts research on rare and imperiled fishes in the Klamath Basin and the desert southwest. Staff at KFFS research life history, population dynamics, and ecological and anthropogenic stressors on fishes in lentic and lotic habitats. Research at the KFFS helps managers make informed decisions about resource use in sensitive and complex arid ecosystems.
Our Research
Conducting fisheries research in the Klamath Basin and the desert southwest.
Species Studied
Conducting research on rare and imperiled fishes in the Klamath Basin and the desert southwest.
News
Something Fishy from the Western Fisheries Research Center – Spring 2023
Something Fishy from the Western Fisheries Research Center - Winter 2022
Western Fisheries Research Center at National American Fisheries Society Meeting
Publications
Endangered Klamath suckers
Since Lost River suckers (Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose suckers (Chasmistes brevirostris) hatched in the early 1990s, almost none of the fish have survived to adulthood. When full grown, Lost River suckers are the largest of the Klamath suckers, averaging about two and a half feet long, whereas shortnose suckers are at around twenty-one inches. Rather than an inability to spawn, these species a
