by coloradorivermike | Nov 17, 2023 | News Articles
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologist Sam Brockdorff holds a native razorback sucker before tagging and releasing it into the Colorado River. Photo by Katie Creighton/DWR Native fish boomed around Moab this year, data suggest High water likely helped razorback... 
by coloradoriver_julie | Sep 29, 2023 | Program Stories
Photo: Taylor Horn releases a Colorado pikeminnow captured in the Redlands Diversion fish ladder. The fish was released back into the Gunnison River roughly 40 miles upriver of the dam at Escalante Canyon. Credit: Dana Shellhorn, USFWS DENVER — Today, the U.S. Fish... 
by coloradorivermike | May 22, 2023 | PHS Hatchery, Program Stories
The Palisade High School Fish Hatchery team make funny fish faces after successfully releasing the student raised endangered fish into the Colorado River. Photo by Mikaela Oles U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service By Michael Gross- Upper Colorado River... 
by Paul Badame | Apr 3, 2023 | Program Stories, Stories from the Field
In March, this young bonytail was captured in Lake Powell. Catching a bonytail is always a rare event, but this time it’s even more interesting because this little one is only about 5 months old and was stocked in the lake as a very small young-of-year about 2-3... by coloradoriver_julie | Nov 30, 2022 | Program Stories
After many months of effort, the draft Colorado Pikeminnow Recovery Plan is ready for review on the Fish and Wildlife Website. The plan will be open for a 60-day public comment period. Recovery Plans are non-regulatory documents that act as a guidebook towards a... by coloradorivermike | Jun 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Zach Fitzner – Earth.com staff writer- Palisade High School, a twenty minute drive from where I live in Colorado, has something unusual – a fish hatchery. When I read about this, I had to visit the school to see for myself. Razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus),... by coloradorivermike | May 16, 2022 | Program Stories
Colorado State University Office of Engagement and Alpine Bank- David Miller of Alpine bank still treasures the values he learned as a 4-H participant growing up in New York. It’s those values, he says, that fueled his commitment to help develop an innovative high... by coloradorivermike | May 16, 2022 | Program Stories
NBC11 Grand Junction, Colorado Palisade , Colorado (KKCO) – Students from Palisade High School’s Fish Hatchery Program released 250 razorback sucker fish into the Colorado River at Riverbend Park, which they’ve raised since last fall. Razorback suckers were once... by coloradorivermike | May 13, 2022 | PHS Hatchery, Program Stories
CBS4 Denver PALISADE, Colorado Think of the bottom feeder sucker fish in a tank, lips suctioned to the glass, cleaning an aquarium nonstop. Now make that fish 3 to 4 feet long, possibly 30+ pounds, and witing for a big kiss and you have the razorback sucker. Click... by coloradorivermike | May 13, 2022 | PHS Hatchery, Program Stories
Editorial – Grand Junction Sentinel May 11, 2022 Last Wednesday, students from Palisade High School released about 250 razorback suckers into the Colorado River to bolster that population of endangered fish. It was made possible through a unique program the...