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Partners Collaborate to Provide Water for People and Fish

by coloradorivermelanie | Dec 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

Donald Anderson, Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery ProgramFebruary, 2020 Numerous water interests on Colorado’s West Slope collaborate with the Upper Colorado Program to augment streamflows for endangered fish. Every irrigation season, weekly calls are...

Palisade High School Fish Hatchery: Students Release Endangered Fish Into Colorado River

by coloradorivermelanie | Dec 10, 2021 | PHS Hatchery, Uncategorized

Michael Gross, USFWS May 14, 2021- In front of an audience of over 100 cheering classmates, news media, faculty, project partners, and community members, Palisade High School (PHS) Fish Hatchery Project released their first batch of student cultured endangered...

Palisade High School Fish Hatchery Update

by coloradorivermelanie | Dec 9, 2021 | PHS Hatchery, Uncategorized

Hatchery Progress Michael Gross, FWSJune, 2020 The Palisade High School Fish Hatchery, in partnership with Ouray National Fish Hatchery-Grand Valley Unit (Ouray NFH-GVU), filled the newly constructed on-campus recirculating aquaculture system in June 2020 with plans...

CPW Nonnative Tournaments Push Control Efforts in Right Direction

by coloradorivermelanie | Dec 2, 2021 | Stories from the Field, Uncategorized

Biologists for Colorado Parks and Wildlife say two fishing tournaments are showing big rewards when it comes to helping control non-native fish in two important bodies of water. At Elkhead Reservoir east of Craig, anglers competed in the 2020 Elkhead Fishing Classic...

Red Fleet Reservoir Benefits Anglers and Endangered Fish

by coloradorivermelanie | Dec 2, 2021 | Stories from the Field, Uncategorized

When Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) discovered someone had illegally put walleye in Red Fleet Reservoir in 2002, Recovery Program stakeholders knew they had problem. Walleye are top predators that consume other fish and can lay thousands of eggs. Walleye...

Larval Trigger Study Plan (LTSP) Shows Wild Razorback Sucker Recruitment

by coloradorivermelanie | Dec 2, 2021 | Stories from the Field, Uncategorized

Razorback sucker was listed as an endangered species in 1991. From 1985-1992 biologists estimated there were 300-600 of these fish left in the middle Green River, the last wild population in the Upper Basin. By 1999, researchers estimated the population had declined...

The Piute Farms Waterfall; Passage Toward Reproduction

by coloradorivermelanie | Dec 2, 2021 | Stories from the Field, Uncategorized

Near the interface with the San Juan River, the receding waters of Lake Powell have left in its tracks an 18-foot tall waterfall, referred to as the Piute Farms Waterfall. Since 2001, this feature has created a barrier to upstream fish movement, keeping nonnative...
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