WSP08420

• File Number: 8240.200.14.D
• Description: UCRBRIP Biology Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1995
• Author: CWCB
• Title: Biology Committee Review of Scopes of Work
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM FOR THE ENDANGERED FISH
SPECIES IN THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN

Lead Agency:
Submitted by:

Colorado Department of Agriculture
Jim Rubingh

Address:
Phone:
Date:

700 Kipling, Suite 4000, Lakewood, CO 80215-5894
[phone]
April 21, 1994

Category (check one):
On-going project
...lL. Requested new start
Unsolicited project
Outside funding

I.

Title or Proposal
Development of non-native tish stocking policy enhancement recommendations
through consideration of representative regionally based stocking proposals for
grass carp and fathead minnows by the pri vate aquaculture industry in the upper
Colorado River Basin,

II.

Relationship to the RIPRAP
The interim Non-native fish srocking policy developed as part of the Recovery
Implementation Plan is intended to delineate where stocking of these fish may and
may not occur. The private aquaculture industry stocks approximately 80% of the
non-native fish distributed in the upper Colorado River Basin.. Effective
implementation of this policy requires a more thorough definition of the locations,
lake types, physical criteria, stocking specifications, and impacts this policy will
have on those agencies responsible for enforcing this policy.. Lake management
plans submitted by state fish and wildlife agencies for use in identification of
policy implementation requisites will not include requests f"r stocking grass carp
and fathead minnows. These two species of fIsh are distributed more frequently
than any other non-salmonid species stocked by the private sector in the upper
Colorado River basin, The importance of these two species to the recovery of the
endangered fishes require adequate identification of the most effective way to
implement the policy,

III..

Study Goals, Objectives, End Products

A, Goals. To identify how the interim non-nati ve fish stocking policy can be
more effective in final fonn through development of representative
requests involving a cross section of stocking situations encountered
regularly by the private aquaculture industry for grass carp and fathead
minnows.