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Hybridization threatens shoal bass populations in the Upper Chattahoochee River Basin: Chapter 37

March 3, 2015

Shoal bass are native only to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, and are vulnerable to extinction as a result of population fragmentation and introduction of non-native species. We assessed the genetic integrity of isolated populations of shoal bass in the upper Chattahoochee River basin (above Lake Lanier, Big Creek, and below Morgan Falls Dam) and sought to identify rates of hybridization with non-native, illegally stocked smallmouth bass and spotted bass.

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Publication Year 2015
Title Hybridization threatens shoal bass populations in the Upper Chattahoochee River Basin: Chapter 37
Authors Elizabeth E Dakin, Brady A. Porter, Byron J. Freeman, James M. Long
Publication Type Book Chapter
Index ID 70154895
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Coop Res Unit Atlanta

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James M. Long, PhD

Research Fish Biologist
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