2014 Annual Report • Nebraska Game and Parks Commission 15
M I S S O U R I R I V E R P R O G R A M
The Missouri River Program works to restore, protect, and maintain the
diversity of historic Missouri River habitats, resources and ecosystem
functions in order that present and future generations may enjoy
consumptive and nonconsumptive outdoor recreational opportunities.
Program staff surveyed a channel widening project completed by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during 2014 in the Lower Little Sioux reach,
documenting the habitat created and fish responses. Also:
• A project to assess the status of channel catfish in the Missouri River,
model management options and document set-line use on the river was
completed, as was a project to monitor turtle populations in the river.
• Studies continued to evaluate use of side-channel habitats by larval
sturgeon, habitat and use of a side channel by juvenile pallid sturgeon,
and reproductive behavior of adult pallid sturgeon, including the first
documentation of an adult female reproductive pallid sturgeon in the
Platte River.
• The annual pallid sturgeon broodstock resulted in the collection of a
record 221 pallid sturgeon. Included were 36 adult sturgeon that were
transported to fish hatcheries to produce young for stocking.
