William M. Bivin

A renovation project on Lake Chicot, a 1,417-ha Arkansas oxbow lake, was undertaken to improve water quality and fisheries productivity negatively impacted by surrounding agricultural land and ensuing drainage. A 1920s levee and drainage project that added 90,653-ha of catchment area to the inflow of Lake Chicot also increased agricultural acreage from 10% to 80% of the lake's watershed. This resulted in a substantial increase in turbidity in the lake (from 40 to 400 NTU), negatively affecting the sportfish populations, especially the largemouth bass. In the late 1980s, the Army Corps of...

Fisheries personnel of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission have developed a standardized system of collecting, analyzing, and reporting electrofishing and rotenone sample data. The system utilizes microcomputers and custom written Microsoft QuickBasic Version 4.0 programs and dBASE files to compile sample data, generate reports, and store information in a statewide database. This system provides fish managers with a quick method for processing data with in-depth analysis while relieving them of time consuming manual processing of sample data. Processing of data is performed by a...