Little Turkey River IA 01-TRK-160

Assessment Comments

Two stream use assessments within 3 miles west of Millville.

Basis for Assessment

Used a review of the field sheets from the November 1991 and October 1994 DNR stream use assessments in Clayton County near Millville to continue to assess support of the Class B(WW) aquatic life uses as FST due to (1) presence of a moderately diverse fish community (12 species from 3 families) for streams in the Driftless Area ecoregion, (2) presence of a majority of the expected fish taxa (6 of 9) for streams in this region, and (3) indications of very high quality aquatic habitats (see above assessment developed for the 1996 report).   None of the expected game fish species, however, were collected during this assessment, probably due to difficulty of sampling fish from coarse substates with seines and due to the general difficulty of capturing adult game fish with seines.   Additional monitoring is needed to better define the status of the aquatic communities of this stream, especially with regard to presence of the expected game fish species.