Fishes of Canada's National Capital Region

Acknowledgements

I am indebted to Dr. Claude B. Renaud, N. Alfonso, M. Picard, Dr. M. Graham and P. Minns, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Anne Phelps and Brent Campbell, University of Ottawa, and Erling Holm, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto for information on fish distributions and for comments on the keys and key characters. Karen Hamilton, Editor of Trail & Landscape, kindly gave permission to re-use the identification keys that first appeared in that journal. Dr. Scott Ercit, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa explained the mysteries of converting UTMs to latitude/longitude.

Grant Hopkins, Orléans graciously provided copies of articles and newspaper clippings that added much useful information specific to local captures.

Dr. M. Sawada, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa for advice and guidance for GIS analyses. Keelan Jacobs served an internship in 2003 at CMN and helped input mapping data. Suzanne Monette served as an intern in 2002-2003 and entered a substantial amount of mapping data.

Uta Gruenert, University of Ottawa provided collection data from her field work.

Tim Haxton, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources took me out sturgeon fishing on the Ottawa River in 2004, enabling me to garner photographs of this species and provided copies of various reports on local fishes.

Naomi Langlois-Anderson, South Nation Conservancy, took me trap-netting on the South Nation River in 2004 enabling me to take photographs of various species and Amie Boudreau of the same institution provided details on fish distributions. Ryan Robson took me and ichthyology intern Krystal Lapierre fishing again on the South Nation in 2005; planning was asssisted by John Irven.

Lisa Setterington, City of Ottawa kindly provided copies of various reports and took me out for a muddy excursion looking for stranded fishes in the Rideau River system.

Mark McMaster, National Water Research Institute, Burlington kindly sent copies of reports on reproductive function of fishes in the Ottawa River.

Alison Murray showed a photographic foresight that enabled me to add a variety of images to this work. George Fisher kindly volunteered his expertise on digital matters during the summer of 2004, improving various aspects of the website and converting images.

Jonathan Ferrabee, CMN introduced me to an ichthyological desert in the lakes at high altitude in the Gatineau Hills.

Prof. Clifford E. Kraft, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York informed me of the copyright free images from his "Inland Fishes of New York" (http://fish.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/fish.html).

Studies on this fauna have been in train for almost 50 years and numerous summer students, interns, volunteers, contractees, staff and members of the general public have helped in the field, in the laboratory and in letters and emails to build up collections and knowledge of the fishes. They are too numerous to mention here but their help has been much appreciated and this work serves as a tribute to their efforts.

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