Figure 5. Status of lake sturgeon in the province of Quebec, Canada.
ural Resources files on individual locations where
fish have been found during various lake and river
surveys. These data were represented as individual
dots on the map and could be translated into our
absent, rare, and common designations by drawing
lines on the map to enclose areas of similar dot den-
sity (Figure 3). Areas that contained no known pop-
ulations (i.e., no dots on the map) were designated