National and Regional Data Assets and Needs to Help Assess Climate Impacts on Fish

While there have been specific examples of climate impacts on stream fishes, documenting climate change at appropriate spatial scales for management requires significant investment in data development and data driven assessment capabilities.  This presentation will discuss data availability and opportunities for regional and national studies of effects of climate change on fishes, along with potential issues and recommendations in developing such datasets.  We draw from experiences and results learned through our national and regional scale assessments of climate change on fish habitats and evaluations of specific species responses to hydrological and thermal factors of rivers likely to change with climate.   In addition, efforts from our collaborators will be used to highlight additional large scale data assets and needs for assessing climate impacts on fishes.