BIG SIOUX RIVER AT SIOUX CITY, IA
BIG SIOUX RIVER IA USGS
BIG SIOUX RIVER AT SIOUX CITY, IA (06485950) is a real-time streamflow monitoring station on the BIG SIOUX RIVER in IA, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey. Riverbot tracks its streamflow and alerts anglers the moment flow and temperature hit their fishing window. 27 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- USGS site number
- 06485950
- Agency
- USGS
- State
- IA
- Coordinates
- 42.5244, -96.4802
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Fish recorded near this station
Sampled at this station's reachBig Sioux River At Sioux City, IA has documented fish occurrence data from USGS Presence/Absence sampling at this monitoring station's reach (COMID 7226854). The dataset includes 27 species with recorded observations.
Species include: freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), river carpsucker (Carpiodes carpio), quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus), blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus), gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), and 22 others.
- Freshwater Drum Aplodinotus grunniens
- River Carpsucker Carpiodes carpio
- Quillback Carpiodes cyprinus
- Blue Sucker Cycleptus elongatus
- Gizzard Shad Dorosoma cepedianum
- Northern Pike Esox lucius
- Goldeye Hiodon alosoides
- Bigmouth Shiner Hybopsis dorsalis
- Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix non-native
- Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis non-native
- Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus
- Bigmouth Buffalo Ictiobus cyprinellus
- Longnose Gar Lepisosteus osseus
- Shortnose Gar Lepisosteus platostomus
- Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus
- Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides
- White Bass Morone chrysops
- Shorthead Redhorse Moxostoma macrolepidotum
- Emerald Shiner Notropis atherinoides
- Sand Shiner Notropis stramineus
- Black Crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus
- Flathead Catfish Pylodictis olivaris
- Blacknose Dace Rhinichthys atratulus
- Longnose Dace Rhinichthys cataractae
- Sauger Sander canadensis
- Walleye Sander vitreus
- Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus
2 species above are flagged non-native or potentially invasive (Silver Carp, Bighead Carp). Records show what has been observed near this station, not what is native to the watershed.
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
- 27 species
- from 27 individual records
- Observed
- Oct 6, 2011 – Oct 6, 2011
- 27 dated records