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<br />have resulted in acquisition of8 properties (580 acres) along the Green and Colorado <br />rivers thus far. <br /> <br />I1J, Nonnative Fishes and Sportfishing <br /> <br />Goal: Minimize the impacts of nonnative fishes and incidental take associated with sport <br />fishing on the endangered fishes, <br /> <br />Status: . <br /> <br />Successful incorporation of the final Nonnative Stocking Procedures into <br />Colorado's stocking regulations (January] 999), <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mechanical removal of channel catfish from the Ouray and Gray <br />Canyon reaches of the Green River, Utah, continued in 1998 and will <br />continue in 1999, Data from 1998 are still being analyzed, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mechanical removal of nonnative cyprinids from backwater nursery areas used by <br />native fishes in reaches of the Green and lower Colorado (Utah) rivers was started in <br />1998 and is scheduled to continue through 2001, ]n 1998, a total of36,080 <br />nonnative cyprinids (1,139 other nonnatives) was removed from backwaters of the <br />Green River, and a total of 16,498 nonnative cyprinids (763 other nonnatives) was <br />removed from backwaters of the lower Colorado River. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The project to mechanically remove small nonnative cyprinids and centrarchids from <br />backwaters on the Colorado and Gunnison rivers, Colorado, was not initiated as <br />planned in ] 998 due to funding problems between the Recovery Program and state <br />budget processes, These problems have been solved, and the project will be initiated <br />in 1999, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mechanical removal of channel catfish from reaches in Yampa Canyon on the <br />Yampa River was initiated in ] 998 and will continue in 1999, ]n 1998, a total of <br />1,346 channel catfish was collected, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The study to evaluate the precision and accuracy of tSMP backwater sampling on the <br />Colorado River (Grand Valley) in terms of its ability to collect and assess the <br />relative abundance of nonnative fishes continued in 1998 and will continue in ]999, <br />Results of the study will be used to guide decisions regarding sport fish management <br />and control of nonnative fishes in the Colorado River and its floodplain in the Grand <br />Valley, <br /> <br />The project to assess removal and translocation of northern pike from the Yampa <br />River to ponds in the Yampa Valley was initiated in 1998, Translocations are <br />planned in 1999 alter CDOW identifies suitable private or public ponds, lakes, and <br />reservoirs to receive these fish, <br /> <br />tV Stocking Native Fishes <br /> <br />4 <br />