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The city of Toledo is located at the mouth of the Maumee. The Maumee was designated an Ohio State Scenic River on July 18, 1974. The Maumee watershed is Ohio's breadbasket; it is two-thirds farmland, mostly corn and soybeans. It is the largest watershed of any of the rivers feeding the Great Lakes, [5] and supplies five percent of Lake Erie's ...
It also currently occupies the Gulf Slope Drainage from the Calcasieu River to the Rio Grande in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. It was introduced to Lake Erie and the lower Maumee River, Ohio. It was supposedly deliberately introduced with a shipment of buffalofish as a game species, and they are currently used in sport fishing. [6]
In Ontario, siltation from agricultural and forestry practices are the biggest threat to the species. Excessive silt can impact mussels' feeding and respiration and cause suffocation. [4] Much of the rayed bean's river habitat is surrounded by agricultural land (for example, up to 89% of the Maumee River drainage in Ohio). Lack of streamside ...
It's official: New Richmond teen breaks Ohio record for largest blue catfish ever caught. Ohio fish records in Hook & Line Division. Bass, hybrid striped: 18.82 pounds. 30 7/8 inches. Muskingum River.
The catfish is plenty good enough fish for anyone. — Mark Twain. The catfish family includes a dozen species in Ohio waters, and some of them are among our best-known fishes.
The walleye is a large predatory fish -- the largest among the 250 species in its biological family, Percidae -- with many sharp teeth in its mouth. ... Walleye can also be found in the Ohio River ...
The harelip sucker was first collected in 1859 and described in 1877. It spread from the south-east United States to the middle and lower Ohio basin, the White drainage of the Ozarks and the Maumee system of Lake Erie. This fish holds the dubious distinction of being the fish species lost from the largest number of American states—eight. [3 ...
The Eastern sand darter was first formally described as Pleurolepsis pellucidus in 1863 by the American ichthyologist Frederic Ward Putnam (1839–1915) with the type locality given as the Black River at Elyria, Ohio. [9] This species forms a clade with the scaly sand darter (A. vivax) and the Southern sand darter (A. meridiana). [10]