MONTANA DEPARTMENT nSH, WILDLIFE, AND PARKS 

 MRIS Reporting Program 



Figure 38. Entering a range of Fishing Pressure 



Fisheries - Limiting Factors/ Management 



5.9 Step 1: Set up the Search 

 Recommendations 



Many of the factors that limit a fisheries in a stream reach, as well as management 

 recommendations to improve the fisheries, have been identified. For a complete listing of 

 the limiting factors that have been identified, see Appendix D. This search requires two 

 levels of selections, first to identify the management practices causing the limiting factor 

 (Figure 39) and then selecting the limiting factor (Figure 40). Again, these selections can 

 be mixed with any of the categories in Figure 39. Keep in mind, some stream reaches 

 may not have their limiting factors identified as of yet. Within a category, an OR 

 statement is established when two or more selections are checked; i.e., chronic dewatering 

 or excess siltation and turbidity. Between categories, however, an AND statement is 

 established; if chronic dewatering is selected from Agricultural Limiting Factors and 

 Physical Limiting Factors, it has to be identified as being chronic dewatered by agricultural 

 and other physical factors. There is also a report format for reporting limiting factors; 

 be sure to use this report from Step 2 in order for the report to run most efficiently. 



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