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Fish File Format Information -Historical Summary

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Last updated on July 18, 2000

Historical Summary

Field Name Years Used
SITE ALIAS 1995 - TO PRESENT
BARCODE 1993 - TO PRESENT
FIELD STATION # 1989 - TO PRESENT
SITE TYPE 1993 - TO PRESENT
HABITAT CLASS 1989 - TO PRESENT
START DATE 1989 - TO PRESENT
START TIME 1989 - TO PRESENT
FINISH DATE 1989 - TO PRESENT
FINISH TIME 1993 - TO PRESENT
POOL/REACH 1992 - TO PRESENT
LOCATION CODE 1989 - TO PRESENT
GEAR CODE 1989 - TO PRESENT
TIME PERIOD 1992 - TO PRESENT
REPLICATE 1989 - TO PRESENT
SUMMARY CODE 1989 - TO PRESENT
PROJECT CODE 1992 - TO PRESENT
EFFORT (DISTANCE) 1990 - TO PRESENT
EFFORT (HOURS) 1989 - TO PRESENT
EFFORT (MINUTES) 1989 - TO PRESENT
POWER GOAL 1989 - TO PRESENT
POWER USED 1989 - TO PRESENT
VOLTS 1989 - TO PRESENT
VOLTS QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
AMPS 1989 - TO PRESENT
AMPS QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
PULSE RATE(HZ) 1989 - TO PRESENT
PULSE RATE QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
DUTY CYCLE 1989 - TO PRESENT
DUTY CYCLE QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
UTM ZONE 1992 - TO PRESENT
UTM EASTING 1992 - TO PRESENT
UTM NORTHING 1992 - TO PRESENT
METHOD 1993 - TO PRESENT
ACCURACY 1992 - TO PRESENT
SECCHI DISK 1990 - TO PRESENT
SECCHI DISK QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
WATER TEMP 1989 - TO PRESENT
WATER TEMP QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
WATER DEPTH 1989 - TO PRESENT
WATER DEPTH QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
CONDUCTIVITY 1989 - TO PRESENT
CONDUCTIVITY QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
WATER VELOCITY 1989 - TO PRESENT
WATER VELOCITY QF 1992 - TO PRESENT
DISSOLVED OXYGEN 1995 - TO PRESENT
DISSOLVED OXYGEN QF 1995 - TO PRESENT
STAGE HEIGHT 1995 - TO PRESENT
STAGE HEIGHT QF 1995 - TO PRESENT
SUBMERSED AQUATIC VEGETATION 1992 - ONLY
DENSITY 1992 - TO PRESENT
EMERGENT AQUATIC VEGETATION 1992 - ONLY
EMERGENT SUB AQUATIC VEG 1989 - TO PRESENT
PREDOMINANT SUBSTRATE 1989 - TO PRESENT
WOODY DEBRIS/SNAG 1992 - TO PRESENT
WINGDAM/DYKE 1992 - TO PRESENT
TRIBUTARY MOUTH 1992 - TO PRESENT
REVETMENT 1992 - TO PRESENT
INLET/OUTLET CHANNEL 1992 - TO PRESENT
LOW-HEAD DAM CLOSING STRUCTURE WEIR 1992 - TO PRESENT
FLOODED TERRESTRIAL 1992 - TO PRESENT
OTHER 1992 - TO PRESENT
COMMENTS 1989 - TO PRESENT
WERE FISH RETURNED TO LAB FOR ID? 1989 TO 1995
NO. OF CONTAINERS 1995 - TO PRESENT
NO.OF FISH MEASUREMENT DATA SHEETS 1992 - TO PRESENT
TOTAL NUMBER FISH COLLECTED 1992 - TO PRESENT
CREW LEADER CODE 1989 - TO PRESENT
ENTRY OPERATOR (COLLECTION SHEET) 1992 - TO PRESENT
VERIFY OPERATOR (COLLECTION SHEET) 1992 - TO PRESENT
PAGE NUMBER 1989 - TO PRESENT
RECORDING SITE 1992 - TO PRESENT
ROW SEQUENCE NUMBER 1989 - TO PRESENT
SPECIES CODE 1989 - TO PRESENT
LENGTH GRP. MIN. 1989 - TO PRESENT
T F S 1990 - TO PRESENT
GRP WIDTH 1989 - TO PRESENT
FISH COUNT 1989 - TO PRESENT
IND/AGG. WEIGHT 1989 - TO PRESENT
PATHOLOGY CODE 1992 - TO PRESENT
SUBPROJECT CODE 1992 - TO PRESENT
USER DEFINED FIELDS 1992 - TO PRESENT
RECORDER CODE 1989 - TO PRESENT
NUMBER FISH ON SHEET 1993 - TO PRESENT
ENTRY OPERATOR (MEASUREMENT SHEET) 1992 - TO PRESENT
VERIFY OPERATOR (MEASUREMENT SHEET) 1992 - TO PRESENT
ORPHAN FLAG 1989 - TO PRESENT
BATCH NUMBER 1989 - TO PRESENT

DISCLAIMER

These data have been generated by State agencies under contract with the Department of the Interior and the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC). Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the UMESC, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. However, error correction is a continuing process, and the UMESC routinely makes changes to data as errors are discovered. The file date is referred to as the release date and should be mentioned in all references to data. These data have been provided as a unit package to ensure that you receive a valid dataset collected in a consistent manner. Methods, purposes, and conditions can vary dramatically among data-collecting efforts and these data should not be combined with other datasets from the UMESC or other sources unless the user fully understands the procedures and purposes used to create each set of data and can verify that data are comparable across sources.

 


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