This seven-volume series is the most extensive treatise on early life histories of the freshwater fishes of North America. It represents the state-of-the-art in fishery biology and provides a systematic approach to the study of early life histories of all the fishes in this region. Each volume contains distinguishing characteristics and a pictorial

Assesses the health of the United States plants, animals, and ecosystems.

Lists the contents of the full two-volume report, and gives the text of the chapter on the Mississippi River from vol. 1.