Written by:
Edited by:
Trisha Roninger
Akimi King
Terry Smith
Stewart Reid
Scott Snedaker
Mark Rqettner
Maple Taylor
Graphicsby:
KristiAlbertson, Gwen Lindsey e Stevie Rqda
FISH PAM'S
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anal fin
LEGEND
NJlTIVE FISH: Native fish ori$nally came
from the Upper Klamath Bersin.
NBN-NATIVE FISH: Non-native fish
were broujht into the Upper Klamath Basin
from somewhere else.
Map sf Upper IUumath Basin
Klumdh redbund h.ou;t ure
fumoqs for their world c;lu~ssize.
Eastern brosfttrsitt were pqt into
Klamath Basin streams t o provide more
types of fish for people t o eateh.
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Marbled seqlpin ure well eamaqfluged, which meung
Lurgemoqth bass cun be reul “meunies”!
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Sqcbers cun live for u long time. The oldest
bnown Lost River sqcker lived for 43 yeurs,
when most fish only live for 3 t o 5 yeurs!
Cruppiegabbte q p s m d e r fish bqtthey fit
perfectty in u pun and ure tusty t o eat!
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Blqe chqbs eecttiny plunts and unimuls culled
plunkton. They uTe natqre’s “hoqsekeeping”fish.
Brown bdthead are atso known US catfish.
They qse their "whiskers"to find and tate food
on the bo-ttorn of takes and rivers.
Speckled dace cun tolerate warn water
and they Like t o hun8 oqt with euch other
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I Mettow pereh beat qp on and e a t smatter native fish.
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t LL troqt need cold, clean water to sqrvive.
Fathead minnowg ure sf3en the most
ubvndunt fish in Upper Klamath Luke.
They were once w e d US buitto catch bigger fiih.
Hatched from eggs, young lamprey have no
eyes or teeth. They live in the mud
and eat algae and bacteria
for up to 5 years.
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Adult lamprey suck the flesh
out of other fish and live
for less than I year.
They have eyes
At about 5 inches long, the Miller Lake lampre&
once thought to be extinct, is the smallest
species of lamprey in the world. The
Klamath Basin has more species
of lamprey than anywhere else
in the world.
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The female lamprey attaches to a rock where
she spawns with the male, lays her eggs in
clean gravel, then dies.
There’s Something Fishy Here
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0 BLACK CRAPPIE
0 BROWN BULLHEAD
0 LAMPREY
0 MARBLED SCULPIN
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LOST RIVER SUCKER
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