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<br />YOYISmall Bodied Fish Monitoring <br />Fiscal Year 2001 Project Proposal <br /> <br />Principal Investigators: David L. Propst and Amber L. Hobbes <br />Conservation Services Division <br />New Mex.ico Department of Game and Fish <br />State Capitol, Villagra BJvd., P.O. Box 25112 <br />Santa Fe, NM 87504 <br />(505827-9906 <br /> <br />dpropst@state.run.us <br /> <br />ahobbes@state.nm.us_ <br /> <br />Study Area: <br /> <br />The study area for YOY/small bodied fish monitoring extends from river mile (RM 180.0 (Animas River <br />confluence) in Farmington, New Mexico, downstream to RM 2.9 (Clay Hills Crossing) just above Lake Powell <br />in Utah. <br /> <br />Collections: <br /> <br />Specimens collected will be inspected to determine if any rare fishes (Colorado pikeminnow, roundtail chub, <br />and razorback sucker) are present in the seine. All identifiable rare fish and all large- bodied native fish (i.e., <br />flannelmouth and bluehead suckers) >150 mm TL will be released. All other specimens will be preserved in <br />10% formalin and returned to the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Laboratory for identification, <br />enumeration, and measurement (total length and weight). <br /> <br />Backeround: <br /> <br />As set forth in Section 5,7 of the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program (SJRIP) Long-Range <br />Plan, a long-term monitoring program "to identify changes in the endangered and other native species <br />populations, status, distributions and habitat conditions" was to be developed by the SJRIP Biology Committee. <br />The ichthyofaunal monitoring portion of the San Juan River Monitoring Plan and Protocols (Propst, et a!., <br />2000) was divided into four primary areas, larval fish-drift sampling, larval fish--seining, young-of-yearlsma\\ <br />bodied, and subadult and adult/large-bodied fishes. The portion of the San Juan River to be monitored extends <br />from the confluence of the Animas and San Juan rivers (Farmington) to Lake Powell (Clay Hills Crossing). <br />The following work proposal for 2001 is to conduct the young-of-year/small-bodied fishes monitoring effort <br />per protocols set forth in the San Juan River Monitoring Plan and Protocols (SJRMPP). <br /> <br />[n addition to accomplishing work (field, laboratory, data analysis, and report writing) specific to the young-of- <br />year/small-bodied fish monitoring effort, this proposal includes work that is devoted to reviews of reports (e.g., <br /> <br />5 <br />