Holly B. Herod

Fishery Dynamics of Macrophyte-dominated Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia

Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a 1,640-ha refuge consisting of 405 ha open water (Banks Lake) and 1,235 ha of cypress swamp, marsh, and uplands located in southern Georgia. Fishes from Banks Lake, a system with problematic densities of both indigenous and nonindigenous aquatic vegetation, were collected during eight sampling periods in open water habitats from 1992 through 2003 to evaluate assemblage and sportfish dynamics. Stability and persistence analyses indicated that the fish assemblage was stable and persistent over time, though catch per unit effort of assemblage members...