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Fred C. Rohde, George H. Burgess, G. William Link, Jr. 
Fig. 1. Map of Croatan National Forest showing sampling stations. Heavy line depicts 
forest boundary. Circles denote stations in this study; squares represent collections made by 
Duke University Marine Laboratory (DUML) personnel or earlier workers at University of 
North Carolina - Institute of Marine Sciences (UNC); triangles indicate collections made by 
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC). 
attempted to list all fishes known to occur or which might occur in 
southeastern national forests, but his Croatan list was based almost solely 
on a literature search (R. E. Jenkins, pers. comm.). We attempted to 
sample a large number of freshwater localities in the Croatan National 
Forest and adjacent streams in order to assess accurately the abundance 
and distribution of its fishes. 
STUDY AREA 
Croatan National Forest comprises 382,716 hectares and occupies 
parts of Carteret, Craven, and Jones counties (Fig. 1). It is drained by the 
Neuse, White Oak, and Newport rivers; a fourth river within the forest, 
the Trent, is tributary to the Neuse. Five natural lakes totaling 10,617 
