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respectively. Swift currents limited our efficiency. We caught no paddlefish. 

 Local fishermen in Madison County whom we questioned in 1994 told us that 

 they had never seen a paddlefish from North Carolina nor heard of one caught 

 there. We presume that the paddlefish has been extirpated from North Carolina. 



Fig. 5. Distribution of the stonecat, Noturus flavus, (circle) and the blotchside 

 logperch, Percina burtoni, (star) in the French Broad and Nolichucky river sys- 

 tems, North Carolina. An open circle overlaps two historical sites where the 

 stonecat was not taken in this survey. Specific historical sites for the blotchside 

 logperch in Cane Creek and the Swannanoa River are not known and are plotted 

 as circles with a question mark. 



Stonecat, Noturus flavus Rafinesque 



The stonecat is distributed through portions of the Mississippi River 

 basin, the Great Lakes, the Ohio River basin, and the St. Lawrence, Mohawk, and 

 Hudson River systems (Rohde 1980). In North Carolina it is documented from 

 only three sites in the Cane River, where it was collected on 1 8 June (one speci- 

 men) and 26 June (six), 1984, and 15 September 1985 (two) (Menhinick 1986). 

 Despite our efforts to collect it at all three sites, we took two adults (pho- 

 tographed and released) only at the downstream-most site on 4 September 1993 

 (Fig. 5). 



