POWELL RIVER AT BIG STONE GAP, VA
POWELL RIVER VA USGS
POWELL RIVER AT BIG STONE GAP, VA (03529500) is a real-time streamflow monitoring station on the POWELL RIVER in VA, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey. Riverbot tracks its streamflow and alerts anglers the moment flow and temperature hit their fishing window. 21 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- USGS site number
- 03529500
- Agency
- USGS
- State
- VA
- Coordinates
- 36.8690, -82.7754
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Fish recorded near this station
Sampled at this station's reachPowell River At Big Stone Gap, VA has documented fish occurrence data from USGS Presence/Absence sampling at this monitoring station's reach (COMID 22539070). The dataset includes 21 species with recorded observations.
Species include: rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), central stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum), banded sculpin (Cottus carolinae), greenside darter (Etheostoma blennioides), redline darter (Etheostoma rufilineatum), and 16 others.
- Rock Bass Ambloplites rupestris
- Central Stoneroller Campostoma anomalum
- Banded Sculpin Cottus carolinae
- Greenside Darter Etheostoma blennioides
- Redline Darter Etheostoma rufilineatum
- Snubnose Darter Etheostoma simoterum
- Speckled Darter Etheostoma stigmaeum
- Bigeye Chub Hybopsis amblops
- Northern Hog Sucker Hypentelium nigricans
- Green Sunfish Lepomis cyanellus
- Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis
- Striped Shiner Luxilus chrysocephalus
- Warpaint Shiner Luxilus coccogenis
- Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu
- Black Redhorse Moxostoma duquesnii
- Golden Redhorse Moxostoma erythrurum
- Tennessee Shiner Notropis leuciodus
- Rosyface Shiner Notropis rubellus
- Telescope Shiner Notropis telescopus
- Logperch Percina caprodes
- Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys atratulus
Where these records come from
- Evidence
- Sampled at this station's reach
- Fish were sampled directly on the river reach this gauge sits on, so these species were recorded at this spot rather than inferred.
- Records
- 21 species
- from 21 individual records
- Observed
- Oct 16, 2008 – Oct 16, 2008
- 21 dated records