As a member of the fisheries technical section of the Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee (UMRCC) I am working with biologists from Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota to update a large document called the UMRCC Fisheries Compendium. The recent question I answered here about potential movement of fish through open dams made me realize that I have not seen any reference to this document on the forum.
The Compendium (~10 yrs between editions) seeks to gather information from state and federal agencies up and down the Mississippi River about individual species and issues in one place.
It can be a daunting read at 264 pages long, but I encourage those that are interested in a particular species or issue to take a look at just that section. There is a good table of contents at the beginning.
Individual species chapters start on pg 89, and the chapter on fish passage through dams begins on pg 216.
As I mentioned we are in the early stages of an update to the document, so we do not yet have a set date for the next edition, but if there is enough interest here I will gladly provide an update when it is available.
The pdf version of the UMRCC Compendium 3rd Edition can be found here: UMRCC Compendium 3rd Edition
