Distribution of Fishes in the Red River of the North Basin on Multivariate Environmental Gradients
Percichthyidae
White Bass
Morone chrysops (Rafinesque), the white bass, is native to the lower Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers in southern Minnesota and was introduced by NDGF into Lake Ashtabula (Sheyenne River) in 1953 for sport fishing. The white bass was first taken during stream surveys in 1964 from the Sheyenne River (Tubb et al. 1965), and it has since been reported only from that stream and the Red, Bois de Sioux, and Otter Tail Rivers (Figure A57). The species is uncommon in the basin (Table 4), and its status in the Sheyenne River is not known.
Figure A57. Distribution of the white bass in streams of the Red River of the North basin.
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