A story from the Moab Times-Independent
Published February 2023 by the Moab Times-Independent
The Green River razorback sucker population got a significant boost in numbers of wild-spawned juvenile fish, thanks largely to the ongoing efforts of the Bureau of Reclamation and its partners in the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program, according to a statement from Reclamation.
The endangered razorback sucker, named for its prominent dorsal keel, evolved in the Colorado River Basin over the last three to five million years and is found nowhere else in the world. While hundreds of thousands of razorback sucker are found throughout the basin, the vast majority originate in hatcheries and are stocked by the truckload in various locations in several Upper and Lower Basin states. Though these fish readily spawn and produce larval fish every year, the larvae rarely survive until adulthood, according to the statement…