An updated survey of freshwater fishes within Letchworth State Park and surrounding areas of the Genesee River

# An updated survey of freshwater fishes within Letchworth State Park and surrounding areas of the Genesee River [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z3gq](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z3gq) Order of columns in Table 1: Fish species, Scientific name, year of capture, location of capture denoted as A, B, or C (see Figure 1 in manuscript for location of sites A, B, C), whether the fish captured at site B is novel to site B based on Carlson and Daniels 2016 Atlas of Inland Fishes of New York (identified with 'Y'). Order of columns in Appendix 1: Fish species, Scientific names, previously captured in the Genesee Watershed (identified with 'X'), previously captured in Genesee River (identified with 'X') Any cells that are filled with 'N/A' represent a lack of fish capture in that year for that species (Table 1), that fish were not novel to site B (Table 1), or that fish species were not surveyed in the Genesee Watershed or Genesee River (Appendix 1). ## Description of the data and file structure Table 1 shows the fish that were captured in this fish survey, and can be used to identify which species was caught at field site locations A, B, or C upstream of Letchworth State Park in New York state (site A), downstream of Letchworth State Park falls in the park (site B), downstream of Letchworth State Park, past the park boundaries (site C). The column 'Novel to Site B (Carlson et al., 2016)' shows which fish species were first identified at site B, in the park. This conclusion is based off of the data organized in Appendix 1, a review of Carlson and Daniel's atlas of fishes of New York, described next. Appendix 1 can be used as an index of fish species that were previously surveyed over three time periods in New York's Genesee watershed. Specifically, we noted which species were observed in the Genesee Watershed (X) and Genesee River (X). The total tally of fish in the watershed (103), river (89), upstream of the falls (77), and downstream of the falls (98) are noted in the manuscript as well. This data also helped us determine which fish were novel to site B, our field site downstream of the falls in Letchworth State Park, as collection sites in the Genesee River are marked for each species in the Atlas if they were caught there. Appendix 1 data was derived from the following sources: * Carlson, D. M., Daniels, R. A., & Wright, J. J. (2016). Atlas of inland fishes of New York. published jointly by the New York State Education Department and the Department of Environmental Conservation.