WSP09017

• File Number: 8240.200.10.L
• Description: UCRBRIP Newsletters/Brochures
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/1/1996
• Author: UCRBRIP
• Title: Recovery Program Newsletter Fall 1996
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Moresquawfish seen. below dam" could swim up ladder

. SQUAWFISH: from 1.

. weeks and could move up the ladder in
the future, said biologist BOD Burdick;
"This was the first Colorado squaw- . .
fish to use a. man~made fish ladder"
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Burdick said, "It s.ignals the beginning'
. of recov~ry. of squaw fish .the"GUirnison
."Rive(" . '-'" .' '. .'
'. . :The fishhidder fiis the: Recovery
. Progiam's goals of restoring endan-
gered fish while. also providing for
. 'future'waterdevel~ .
.opment, according to .
Fish and. Wildlife
Service .... . Rllgional
Director. . . Ralph
Morgenweck. .
"The fish ladder is .
a great example ofa .
profeci that . . pro-;
Ralph' .. motes. recovery of
Morglmweck endangered. . fish.
. whiIeaccommodat-
ing.'diversion of.water resoUrces for.
Irrigation. and. hydroelectric power,"
Morgenweck said, "In terms of .the
Colorado River. Recovery. Program's
two objectives, it's right on-target.".

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. Photo by Bruce Bauerle

Biological technician Brian Scheer holds the fimtendanger6d fish to swim up
the: Redlarids' Fish Ladder'. The 22.5-inch. 3-pound Colorado squaWfish was
disCovered in the ladder trap by Scheer and two other technicians Aug. 28.
After implanting the fish with an electronic tag. scientists released it above the
. Redlands. Diversion Dam. Endanlieredfish havebeim unabl.e to migrate
upstream of the dam for nearly a 'eentllry. . .. '..

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Mailing list available: letterS to editor welcome

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