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<br />DRAfT <br /> <br />("J <br />o <br />.,-.) <br />':.,~ <br />,.;;,. <br />CJ:J <br /> <br />1) Maintain and protect self-sustaining populations in their <br />natural habitat throughout the squawfish's present range. <br /> <br />Razorback Sucker: <br /> <br />1) Capture, secure and provide refugia for individual <br />representatives of presumptive genetic populations. <br /> <br />2) Maintain and enhance wild populations in their habitat. <br /> <br />3) Augment. if necessary, existing populations. <br /> <br />Specific species recovery goals will be developed for the San Juan River basin <br />using information developed as part of the Recovery Program. Specific goals <br />established will not only reflect the need to protect these fishes in the San <br />Juan River, but will emphasize the value, contribution, and role of these <br />fishes to recovery throughout their range. <br /> <br />1.2 BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR THE RECOVERY PROGRAM <br /> <br />During the Section 7 Consultation on the Animas-La Plata Project. a group of <br />agency biologists was convened to consider the impacts of the project and to <br />provide its views on proposed reasonable and prudent alternatives. The <br />biologists agreed that there were three "critical assumptions" regarding <br />endangered fish populations in the San Juan basin: <br /> <br />1, The San Juan River's population of Colorado squawfish and razorback <br />sucker, while representing a reproducing population, are in danger of <br />becoming extirpated. However, with appropriate management, the status <br />of the populations might be enhanced. <br /> <br />2 <br />