Record Details
Lake Mead nutrient enhancement project
Digital Scholarship@UNLV
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Lake Mead nutrient enhancement project |
| Creator | Vaux, Peter D. Paulson, Larry J. Nevada Department of Wildlife National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| Description | The Lake Mead Fertilization Project is a research program designed to investigate the potential for using large-scale artificial fertilization to enhance the game fisheries of this reservoir through an increase in the population of threadfin shad, the system's primary forage species. A substantial decline in the population of largemouth bass, together with poor condition of adult striped bass, are the two major issues affecting the Lake Mead game fisheries. Both issues have been hypothesized... |
| Date | 1990-12-01T08:00:00Z |
| Type | technicalreport |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/water_pubs/80 https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/context/water_pubs/article/1085/viewcontent/LakeMeadNutrientEnhancementProject1990.pdf |
| Source | Publications (WR) |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Digital Scholarship@UNLV |
| Subject | Ammonium polyphosphate; Aquatic fertilization; Environmental monitoring; Fisheries; Freshwater fishes; Lake Mead (Arizona and Nevada) Aquaculture and Fisheries Environmental Engineering Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment Environmental Monitoring Fresh Water Studies Natural Resource Economics Natural Resources and Conservation Natural Resources Management and Policy Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Water Resource Management |
